From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #135 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 25 2002 Volume 11 : Number 135 Today's Subjects: ----------------- woops [dmw ] Re: JMWT [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Kalevala ["Brian Hoare" ] tonite's show w00p [Eclipse ] Plastic potatoes, and what I'm listening to lately ["Eugene Hopstetter, J] FW: Seen Nick Drake? [John Burgan ] Fwd: Re: "Elixers and Remedies" in Worcester? [invader woj ] Re: tonite's show w00p [Michael R Godwin ] Re: largo-a-go-go [invader woj ] Saturday's show at Largo ["Aaron L." ] Attn Doug M-W (fwd) [Michael R Godwin ] tricksters and serpents ["Natalie Jane" ] paging dr. lindhurst [invader woj ] Setlist - 4/23/02 - San Fran [glen uber ] Re: tonite's show w00p [drew ] RE: Setlist - 4/23/02 - San Fran ["Reynolds, Russ" ] Re: gonna sound so out of it [Tom Clark ] RE: gonna sound so out of it ["Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" ] Doyle Dykes (0% RH) ["Mike Wells" ] May 11 Feg Event in DC [bayard ] The freakin' Strokes (0% content del Hitchcock) ["Jason R. Thornton" ] ELIXIRS & REMEDIES - Concert Film Premieres [invader woj ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:02:53 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: woops 'scuse me i'm skimming heavily and way late, for assorted reasons, but... did y'all really get through a thread about certain twilight shades of blue and difficulties attendant in rendering them and NO ONE!?!? mentioned maxfield parrish? yow. - -- d. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:17:04 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: JMWT >The other fav is called "The Evening Star," & >shows a beach just after sunset. The star is a >little speck of paint in the blue sky & you can >look lots of places in the picture & the star >is invisible to your peripheral vision. Only if >you look right at it does it pop out, just the >way a star will in a still-bright sky. I think >it's at the Tate. the vision geek in me is compelling me to write that that is the opposite to the way it happens with a real star! very tiny pinpoints of light are usually easier to see exfoveally (i.e., looking just to one side of them, with the light falling somewhere other than the eye's fovea). Good painting though. James now playing: The Muttonbirds - Rain steam speed :) 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: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:35:37 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: Re: Kalevala >Have never read the Kalevala but have always meant to. It's well worth it. Very magical and beautiful. Vdindmvinen (probably corrupted by demime) is one of the most convincing sages/magicians in mythic lit. There are a number of translations and you ought to go for a verse one. We read, I believe, the Bosley* translation which was recommended to us. There is an older verse translation by Kirby that I haven't tried but have been warned against. I seriously recommend finding some one else who wants to read it and taking turns reading aloud. As it is derived from an oral tradition there are many stock phrases and repeated descriptions and reading aloud prevents you from skimming. brian *I will check when I get home and post a correction if necessary. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:53:18 -0700 From: Eclipse Subject: tonite's show w00p hey gang, sorry i missed the feg contingent at the GAMH tonight; i spotted you from afar but didn't get the chance to say hi. i was in antsy company. :) i was really taken with the show (though i can't say i really cared for Mike Viola's set - it was ok, but didn't really capture me) - i wish it had been longer, i wish there had been a second encore, and i wish he'd really played Devil's Radio as he seemed to introduce before playing Listening to the Higsons. for those of you following along elsewhere, i can't remember the setlist in its entirety, but i can give you what i do recall (in no particular order): Insect Mother I Got The Hots This Could Be The Day Raymond Chandler Evening Victorian Squid Mind Is Connected A Man's Got To Know His Limitations, Briggs Terrapin Not Dark Yet She Doesn't Exist Airscape Arms of Love Dark Princess Linctus House The Last Thing To Die IsYour Feelings Listening To The Higsons ..... urrrgh .. this is all i can recall. but lots of beautiful commentary, a great bit about Bush, using the plastic crab Jeme so stratigically placed on the mic stand before the encore, and a towel (representing Gore); a thoughtful summary of the Dirty Harry movie that is the origin of "...Briggs" and lots of other clever chat. blinking was minimal, as far as i could tell from where i sat, and attire was bold yet stylish in jeans and a bright blue and red hyacinth-print shirt. :) i saw a few cones after they'd been bought, i never saw how many were actually for sale. did a feg get one? RH and Viola cd's available for $20 each. that's all i saw. i wish i hope somebody taped this show... warm glow-ily, Eclipse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eclipse eclipse@tuliphead.com Kindness towards all things is the true religion. - Buddha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:31:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Plastic potatoes, and what I'm listening to lately > From: "victorian squid" > > (I assumed at the time this was a plastic potato but maybe it was > actually a gourd- who knows?). "Plastic potato." That instantly reminded me of a song. "Under the table and down in the pit / with our plastic potatoes and JoJo the dove on the spit..." Lyrics in the song "The Month After" by the Legendary Pink Dots, written by Edward Ka-Spel, on their "The Golden Age" album. That's some of what I've been listening to lately -- rediscovering my many LPDs and LPDs-related albums. I've also been on a mad LP-buying binge lately. I bought 22 of them this weekend (ranging from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington mono LPs to original Fantasy records pressings of CCR albums) for a $1.50 each. I think in three months I've accumulated about 100 albums and haven't paid more than $2 for a single one yet. I've got months of new music to discover and it cost me peanuts. Why pay $20 for a CD when I've got a spanky new turntable and an album cleaner? Some of the new bands I'm enjoying recently include Air and American Analog Set. But mostly I've been listening to older stuff: Roger Eno, Matching Mole, Zappa, and that Robyn Hitchcock guy. But I do feel an XTC binge coming on, too. . Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:14:34 +0200 From: John Burgan Subject: FW: Seen Nick Drake? - ---------- From: John Burgan Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:10:17 +0200 To: Subject: Seen Nick Drake? Bit last minute this but what the heck... A Skin Too Few - Documentary at London Film School Wednesday 24th April 2002 London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, Covent Garden 7pm for 7:30pm, Price UKP3 After being screened at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival and numerous other festivals and having won an Award for Best Foreign Documentary in New York, a Skin Too Few on British popsinger Nick Drake will be screened at the DFG. Dutch director Jeroen Berkvens and his cameraman Vladas Naudzius create melancholical images that reflect the mood of Nick Drake's music. Berkvens interviews people close to Drake including his sister Gabrielle. Critic Sam McAbee wrote: " It's the most emotional and intuitive view of the life and music of Nick Drake ever attempted." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:01:55 -0400 From: invader woj Subject: Fwd: Re: "Elixers and Remedies" in Worcester? update on the showing of "elixirs and remedies" in worcester next month. the film will now be shown on friday only -- not several times during the weekend as previously advertised. >Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:02:38 -0700 (PDT) >From: mark paolini >Subject: Re: "Elixers and Remedies" in Worcester? >To: invader woj > >O invader woj, > Update: because of time and $$ constraints, the >Bijou will be showing "Elixers and Remedies" ONE DAY >ONLY --- May 10th. There will be 3 showings - exact >show times will announced a few days before - but they >will ROUGHLY be 5ish, 7ish, 9ish, P.M. wise, of >course. If it's possible to update Fegmania, I'd be >most appreciative. Hope you can make it... > Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:37:15 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: tonite's show w00p On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Eclipse wrote: > for those of you following along elsewhere, i can't remember the setlist in > its entirety, but i can give you what i do recall (in no particular order): [snip] > Terrapin * Wow! I'd be interested to hear what he makes of the words on the middle 8. I have something like: "Floating bumping noses dodge a tooth the fins are luminous; fangs all round the clam is dark below the boulders hiding, ah the sunlight's good for us". Can anyone elucidate further? - - Mike Godwin PS I don't think I "get" Clint Eastwood. Watched 'Unforgiven' for several hours last night without really discovering what was going on. I think maybe the TV print had been cut to ribbons, as scenes where he was dodging bullets from a large posse (led by Gene Hackman, natch) were jump-cut to scenes of him chatting amiably with the regulars from the local whorehouse. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:44:04 -0400 From: invader woj Subject: Re: largo-a-go-go when we last left our heroes, invader woj exclaimed: >i've heard that the largo answering machine is saying that robyn is (1) >playing there on the 27th and the 30th and (2) sitting in on the friday >night jon brion shenanigans. can anyone in the los angeles area confirm >this? i don't have the phone number handy or i would myself. just called largo and the message *does* say that robyn will be playing on saturday (the 27th) and next tuesday (the 30th). they're full up for dinner reservations for both nights, unfortunately, but there's still room at the bar. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:45:15 -0700 From: "Aaron L." Subject: Saturday's show at Largo I don't suppose anyone has a free spot at a reserved table at this show that I could compensate them for? I've had a really rough few weeks, and have been without transportation when both my old vehicle and the new car I bought to replace it have broken down, but it looks like I should be mobile again by the weekend, and I'd love to see the show, if it can be managed. Any L.A. fegs who know anything about the possibility of me being able to catch that show, could you contact me off-list? I'd really appreciate it! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:03:43 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Attn Doug M-W (fwd) Hi Doug I tried to reply to your message, but my reply bounced, so I am replying through the list. I tried to download the files you sent, but I kept getting a message 'File contains an "=" which cannot be downloaded in base64 text'. Any idea what the problem is, please? - - Mike ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:19:08 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: tricksters and serpents >don't forget Cuchulainn! And as for more modern 'tricksters', does it >have >Marcel Duchamp? Yes, it has Duchamp, master of the readymade. It doesn't have Cuchulainn - I wouldn't consider him a trickster, though. He was more of just a plain old ass-kicker, no tricks involved. Key, I read the Kalevala in college. It was really, really boring. Just read "The Wall of Serpents" by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, instead. There's a band in Detroit called The Fletcher Pratt. I think that's cool. n. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:33:11 -0400 From: invader woj Subject: paging dr. lindhurst luna will be on wfmu on may 9th during joe belock's program (noon - 3pm). doesn't say they will be performing live, but i can't imagine why they wouldn't. listen in at 91.1fm in northern new jersey and new york city, 90.1fm in the hudson valley, http://wfmu.oven.com:8004/ in 32kbps mono mp3, and http://wfmu.oven.com:8000/ in 128kbps stereo mp3. +w ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:32:52 -0700 From: glen uber Subject: Setlist - 4/23/02 - San Fran Sorry if this has been posted already. I have in digest mode for the time being and have no way of knowing what shows up on the list until long after it's been posted. Here is Robyn's set from last night. I will post my impressions of the show when I have some free time. MAIN SET Acoustic - Shirt was a charcoal grey number with pink orchid-like flowers all over it. This Could Be The Day (the line, "Nubian slaves" became "Nubian Dave") I Got The Hots (Dedicated to the conspicuously absent Russ Reynolds) A Man's Got To Know His Limitations, Briggs Not Dark Yet (Dylan) Duck Recess, aka Dark Princess (Even after hearing it so often, I still say the chords were nicked from "Isn't It A Pity") Victorian Squid Terrapin (the Barrett song, not the Garcia-Hunter song) Insect Mother Linctus House Arms of Love Electric - He played a beautiful sunburst Telecaster during this set She Doesn't Exist Queen of Eyes (yep, still "Mucky") Airscape ENCORE Electric Raymond Chandler Evening (with an extra verse) The Last Thing To Die Is/Are Your Feelings (Instrumental - lame, repetitive arpeggios) Blues Improv w/harmonica Mind Is Connected (is that the correct title?) Acoustic Listening To The Higsons ==== A personal aside to Nick, Mimi, Tom the C. & Steve the C., Shark Boy, Jeme, Drew, Chris, Sydney and Jay: It was great seeing all of you whom I've seen before and it was just as great finally meeting those of you whom I didn't know before last night. Fegs not only are the nicest people, but also the coolest, funniest and most intelligent lot around. I feel fortunate to be a member in good standing of the Kingdom of Feg. Fegmaniaxis felicitur! Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:29:34 -0700 From: drew Subject: Re: tonite's show w00p On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 07:41 AM, Eclipse wrote: > i was really taken with the show (though i can't say i really cared for > Mike Viola's set - it was ok, but didn't really capture me) I think most of us were of the same opinion. My take was that his playing and his melodies were pretty decent, but that his affected vocal style and his lyrics were not too hot. Jeme audibly groaned at a couple of lines, which got us all snickering. I felt like a kid at a high school assembly. His Quentin-Tarantino-in-k.d.-lang-drag outfit didn't help. > - i wish it had been longer, i wish there had been a second encore, > and i wish he'd really played Devil's Radio as he seemed to introduce > before playing Listening to the Higsons. Me too squared, except I didn't miss "Devil's Radio" and was glad it turned out to be "Higsons." > for those of you following along elsewhere, i can't remember the > setlist in its entirety, but i can give you what i do recall (in no > particular order): Glen was writing it down, and I assume he'll post the whole thing in order soon. I was thrilled with the song selection for the most part, and blown away by "Insect Mother" and "Victorian Squid" and especially "Terrapin" and a "Linctus House" that nearly had me crying. Wow. The only disappointments for me were "Dark Princess," whose refrain really requires a more agile voice than Robyn's, "Airscape," which I've heard a million times and whose high notes Robyn couldn't hit, and "Mind Is Connected," which I dislike and which sounds like self-parody to me. > the plastic crab Jeme so stratigically placed on the mic stand before > the encore, The Man (not Nick Lowe's songwriter) wouldn't let him put it up there before the show. We were all too chicken to do it except for Jeme. > blinking was minimal, Except during "The Last Thing to Die Are [sic] Your Feelings," during which he was blinking like crazy. > i saw a few cones after they'd been bought, i never saw how many were > actually for sale. did a feg get one? I only saw two for sale and I stood directly behind the two people who bought them. Argh! So unless they brought more out, or those were stealth fegs, I think the answer was no. > RH and Viola cd's available for $20 each. that's all i saw. Surely Viola's was only $10! If it were $20 I don't know how he could have sold any. Wish you'd come over to say hi, but glad you made it! Thanks to Nick also for organizing the before-show restaurant thingy and, I assume, bringing the crab as well. Drew ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:04:21 -0700 From: "Reynolds, Russ" Subject: RE: Setlist - 4/23/02 - San Fran > I Got The Hots (Dedicated to the conspicuously absent Russ Reynolds) yeah...right. Sounds like it was a fun evening, y'all. Wish I coulda gone. - -rr PS: Hey Randi! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:26:09 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: gonna sound so out of it on 4/23/02 4:40 PM, victorian squid at v.squid@eudoramail.com wrote: > I wanted to ask something. Who was it here who said that > Mike Viola reminded them of Paul Simon? Er, how, exactly? Were you describing > some other opener on this tour and I > mixed things up? The guy I saw dressed like Paul Weller > and sounded very G. Parker/ E. Costello influenced. Didn't he do a Paul Simon song in SF? I'm not a S&G aficionado, but one of those tunes sounded really really familiar. Oh, and the names "Mike Viola" and "Graham Parker" should never be uttered in the same breath. Blasphemy!!! 'twas great seeing all the great fegs last night. Thanks to Nick for organizing it all, and to Jeme to riding a Greyhound all day just to see us. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:37:58 -0700 From: "Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" Subject: RE: gonna sound so out of it Tom Clark [tclark@mac.com] wrote: > on 4/23/02 4:40 PM, victorian squid at v.squid@eudoramail.com wrote: > > > I wanted to ask something. Who was it here who said that > > Mike Viola reminded them of Paul Simon? Er, how, exactly? Were you > > describing some other opener on this tour and I > > mixed things up? The guy I saw dressed like Paul Weller > > and sounded very G. Parker/ E. Costello influenced. > > Didn't he do a Paul Simon song in SF? I'm not a S&G aficionado, but one > of those tunes sounded really really familiar. Oh, and the names "Mike > Viola" and "Graham Parker" should never be uttered > in the same breath. Blasphemy!!! In Seattle he played American Tune by Simon which introduced as a song by another NYC songwriter. His voice was very Paul Simon-ey but his tunes were definitely more squeeze/EC influenced. He was a fine opener not great but he certainly didn't make me want to leave which is all ask for from an opening act. I was tickled that he did Trilobite in Seattle. I'm sorry I didn't meet any of the fegs that were there I was with a bunch of friends and now I realize that you all were standing behind me and I even helped hang the crab on his mic stand! Oh well I'll definitely have to meet you all next time around. Jason, thinking the new Elvis Costello is brilliant. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:53:16 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: Attn Doug M-W (fwd) If anybody thinks they got an e-mail from me with files attached, please forward it to me so I can figure out what the hell is going on, but do not open it or download any attachments. god dammit, I use UNIX specificially so I shouldn't have to worry about this crud. On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Michael R Godwin wrote: > Hi Doug > > I tried to reply to your message, but my reply bounced, so I am replying > through the list. > > I tried to download the files you sent, but I kept getting a message 'File > contains an "=" which cannot be downloaded in base64 text'. > > Any idea what the problem is, please? > > - Mike > - ------------------------------------------------- Mayo-Wells Media Workshop dmw@ http://www.mwmw.com mwmw.com Web Development * Multimedia Consulting * Hosting ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:21:20 -0500 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Doyle Dykes (0% RH) Just a quick unloading over how charged up I still am over seeing Doyle Dykes last night. For the unfamiliar, he's an astounding fingerpicking guitarist. His first album for Windham Hill "Gitarre 2000" (1998) is IMHO one of the best examples of its genre. On subsequent releases he's shown that he can move effortlessly through the styles of Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Homer + Jethro, etc. while still retaining his own distinctive sound, and he's got the ability to write and orchestrate larger themes that incorporate the acoustic guitar and yet are not dominated by it. Truly a very gifted artist, and he played at a local music shop about five minutes from my house last night. For free. They got about 100 people in the place, seats had to be reserved about a month in advance and were fit in among all the equipment that was moved around to make room. The crowd almost exclusively guitarists; semi-pro guys, music store owners, and a bunch of enthusiatic amatuers (like me). The evening was sponsered by Taylor Guitars, and I was expecting it to be maybe 30 - 45 minutes worth of Doyle and then the heavy sales pitch...but nothing was further from the truth. Doyle came out a *burned* for an hour straight before putting his guitar down for the first time. I won't list songs (not sure if anyone else onlist would know themn), but suffice it to say they ran the table on all styles of fingerpicked guitar, with a heavy emphasis on the Nashville flavor and a good number of selections from his latest "Country Fried Pickin'. If the setlist may have been tilted towards the flash end of his repertoire, that was probably intentional given the audience. And he took that room and woodshedded each and every one of us. Badly. Fortunately Doyle's got a very easy stage manner and he spent another 45 min. sitting down with about six or seven different Taylor guitars and talking about the differences and tearing up for a few minutes on each. That was the extent of sales bit. Talking and telling stories in between, easygoing stuff - here's how you play this lick, do y'all remember this one, that kind of sitting around in the basement playin' vibe. With none of the 'you've gotta buy this guitar' crap. And he was very generous with his time afterwards, signing CD's and finding time to chat with everyone who wanted to talk. It was one of those rare instances when I've met someone whose work I have admired for some time, and they were even more skillful and gracious in person than I would have expected. Thoroughly one of the best evenings I've spent out in awhile (certainly one of the best for pure guitar flash), I think I'm still more pumped . Doyle's constantly on tour either in halls, shops and churches, and I can't recommend seeing him enough. Check www.doyledykes.com for info. Happy fretting, Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:18:07 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: May 11 Feg Event in DC Hey all, I wanted to let you know of a very special feg who is doing something big next month. (She's too modest to tell you herself.) Please see below. Who's going? Let me know... __ I wanted to excitedly alert you all to an event I'll be performing at May 11th, in Washington DC. The event is a peaceful (hopefully!) disabled-rights protest march, the "March for Awareness." I'm to kick off the proceedings on the steps of the Capitol (at about, oh, 10am, o'clockish) with a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner & I'll be playing a solo acoustic set at the march's conclusion. For more info on this, please go here... http://www.geocities.com/tlloeffler/fibrofight2.html I'm incredibly honored to be doing this and hope you all can turn up, or will alert some north-east coast friends/family about this. If you need more specifics, please feel free to contact me. Thanks & peace, Angel http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/angeltunes/index.html - -- http://glasshotel.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:27:33 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: The freakin' Strokes (0% content del Hitchcock) Saw the Strokes last night in a little venue unimaginatively called "4th and B." If you're curious as to what the Strokes sound like live, put on "Is This It?" and imagine you're in a noisy venue with hundreds of people singing along. Now having seen the band, I'm all the more impressed at just how well the album captures their live sound. I ended up front and center for the first five or six songs, until I got tired of being crushed and backed up a few "rows" of people. The crowd was really into them, bouncing around, crowd-surfing, throwing things on stage and such. The band didn't even flinch when a couple of cups of beer came flying their way. It was a terrific set - they played everything from the album, both versions - "NYC Cops" and "When I Started" were included. They did play a couple of new and/or unreleased songs, which were pretty much in the same vein as the "Is This It?" material. At one point, some girl leaving the turmoil at the front of the stage slipped or was knocked from behind and fell face first right beside me. I quickly grabbed her arm and lifted her back to her feet before she got stepped on, so at least I scored a few good karma points last night. Heh heh. Wheeeeeeee! San Diego Jason, he ain't too smart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:51:42 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Sympathy for the Viola On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:37:58 Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc) wrote: >In Seattle he played American Tune by Simon which >introduced as a song by another NYC songwriter. OK, I missed that. I wandered away after the third number. >not great but he certainly didn't make me want to leave >which is all ask for from an opening act. I didn't think he was horrifyingly bad or anything, just that the songs weren't anything I hadn't heard before. I thought he had a great sense of humor and was impressed with how well he handled the broken string incident. I've seen some other performers allow their frustration and/or nerves to get the better of them in similar situations (including some pampered souls who can afford roadies and don't even have to do stuff themselves). It can't be fun to break a string just a couple minutes into the set and have to change it in front of the audience, especially when that audience consists of people who have never even heard of you prior to this. >I'm sorry I didn't meet any of the fegs that were there I >was with a bunch of friends and now I realize that you >all were standing behind me Well, not all of us were behind you. Some of us were (if I understand your description correctly) a bit in front of you to your left. But I take your point :). loveonya, susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:49:20 -0400 From: invader woj Subject: ELIXIRS & REMEDIES - Concert Film Premieres good news for the seattlelites! note that, according to the film will be shown *only* on may 10th in worcester, despite what it says below. >Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 01:31:23 -0700 >Subject: ELIXIRS & REMEDIES - Concert Film Premieres >From: "kris.kristensen@scotopiapictures.com" > >Elixirs & Remedies Premiere - Apr. 24, 2002 >The concert film Elixirs & Remedies will premiere in Worcester, MA on May >10, 2002, followed by a West Coast premiere in Seattle, WA one week later. >The much anticipated film stars cult recording artists Robyn Hitchcock and >Grant Lee Phillips. > >For 90 minutes Hitchcock and Phillips cover each others tunes, and >bastardize some other well known songs. Their intimate lyrics are >humorously contrasted by their hilarious in between banter. > >"I enjoyed Elixirs & Remedies more than Storefront Hitchcock (by Oscar >winning director Jonathan Demme)" >- Michelle Noach (Mr. Hitchcock's lovely wife) > >For screening details please visit: > >Bijou Cinema, Worcester, MA http://www.bijoucinema.net >May 10-12 > >911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA http://www.911media.org >Saturday May 18 >(Director Kris Kristensen will be present) > >* Also be sure to check out POST CONCUSSION on Friday May 17 (911 Media >Arts Center) by filmmaker Daniel Yoon. A humorous look at how a man's >life is changed after suffering a concussion. "I've got two words for >you... serious head injury." > >For more info visit: >http://www.scotopiapictures.com/News/news_2002_04_24_enrpremier.html > >To be removed from this list, hit reply and type remove in the subject line. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #135 ********************************