From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #146 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, May 7 2002 Volume 11 : Number 146 Today's Subjects: ----------------- "Elixers.." show times @ Bijou [invader woj ] Tlaloc the rain god, patron of the Pacific Northwest ["Natalie Jane" ] RE: Is Vic There? ["Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V11 #145 [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] whatever happened to Xochipilli? [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] PS [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Mexican God ["Maximilian Lang" ] Chicago / NYC Tree ["Michael Wells" ] Re: love me tender [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Tales From The Underwater. ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Mexican God [Miles Goosens ] Will the *real* Mexican God please step forward? [The other Mr Feg ] Clean up in Aisle 9 [Mike Swedene ] re: put-downs [Eclipse ] Off the Beaten Path ["Marc Holden" ] the time factor [Jill Brand ] Re: Balloon Kids!! ["Mike Wells" ] Re: Will the *real* Mexican God please step forward? [The Great Quail ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 16:11:48 -0400 From: invader woj Subject: "Elixers.." show times @ Bijou >Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:58:53 -0700 (PDT) >From: mark paolini >Subject: "Elixers.." show times @ Bijou >To: woj@fegmania.org > >Greets fellow woj, > Here are the show times for "Elixers.." on May 10th >at the Bijou... 5:30 8:00 10:00 in the p.m. > > Bijou Mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 13:52:41 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: Tlaloc the rain god, patron of the Pacific Northwest >I bought the new Departure Lounge album. I've only listened to >it once and I was sick -- Yeah, the Departure Lounge does that to me, too... :P >Whoa. I swear I wrote mine before reading this. If my cats bite my >hand >I'm suing you. You'll be too busy writhing in pain to sue me. My cat bite has faded to a tiny divot, a week after my doctor said, "Your hand looks like a tomato." The capacity of the human body to heal itself never fails to amaze me. >Im a child from the 50s/60s. I grew up in NY. Lots of glass towers, >modernism, modernism everywhere I looked. My mother wore Balenciaga >sack >dresses and my dad dressed like early James Bond. Goddamn! Why did I have to grow up in the 70's? I still remember coming home one day and being flabbergasted by my mom's ugly tight 70's perm. >I had already >heard that lyric as "Time will destroy you like a Mexican God >destroys >one." Yeah, me too - especially since those Mexican gods are such total and complete bad-asses. Please see "The Day of Nine Dogs" issue of Grant Morrison's "The Invisibles" for more information. I can't be bothered to look up the names, but the god of the dead and the "Obsidian Butterfly" are entities you DO NOT FUCK WITH. Not to mention that headless guy with the ribcage that opens and shuts like a door. My favorite Robyn put-down is "The first time she saw you, she hoped you were gay/It's hard to recover when you're the disease." Yowch. n. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 16:59:22 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: Is Vic There? Does anyone remember a song from the early 80's, Is Vic There? I can't remember the name of the band that did it. Farfisa type organs in the background. And the singer kept on asking, Is Vic There? I recorded it once from a radio show, but don't have it anymore. It might have been on some New Wave compellation cd's as well. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:15:03 -0700 From: "Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" Subject: RE: Is Vic There? Department S did that one. Nice little tune. Jason, currently digging the new Model Rockets album. - -----Original Message----- From: Bachman, Michael [mailto:Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:59 PM To: Lostmadonnerofthewasps (E-mail) Subject: Is Vic There? Does anyone remember a song from the early 80's, Is Vic There? I can't remember the name of the band that did it. Farfisa type organs in the background. And the singer kept on asking, Is Vic There? I recorded it once from a radio show, but don't have it anymore. It might have been on some New Wave compellation cd's as well. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:18:30 -0700 From: "Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" Subject: RE: Is Vic There? Looks like you can download it for free at MP3.com http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/185/department_s.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 17:31:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: RE: Is Vic There? On Mon, 6 May 2002, Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc) wrote: > Department S did that one. Nice little tune. Any relation to the Monty Python routine (on "Matching Tie and Handkerchief") where someone calls in to a farming talk show to ask "Is Vic there?" - --Chris (who wasn't quite sure what to do with the question mark there) ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:22:15 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V11 #145 >> +brian in New Orleans ("Lucky the pig wears a hat with a brim") > >it's BUCKY! it's f... oh never mind... J. 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: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:35:03 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: whatever happened to Xochipilli? >> > Thus, "Time will destroy you like a Mexican God" = >> > "Time wll destroy you like time destroyed the Mexican Gods." I remember >> > that at the time, this was a bit of a revelation, because I had already >> > heard that lyric as "Time will destroy you like a Mexican God destroys >>one." >> >> I never heard it like this. To me, it has always been in the spirit of, >> "So, who's afraid of Cihuacoatl these days?". Maybe it's a NAm/UK usage >> difference. > >That's the way I've always taken it. An eroded and lichen-covered remnant, >stripped of emotional power/control. I usually hear it that way, although it can be taken both ways. I see it as Robyn's "Ozymandias", the rubble of the once mightly, proud statue surrounded by its once rich and now empty land. >I personally favor the second one; that is, at least, how I "hear" >the song in my imagination. I also wonder at the first stanza; he >seems to be referring to some concrete object, like a figurehead, >which of course returns in the later imagery.... > >- --Quail > > * * * * * * >Chip-chip-chipper up in the crow's nest >Upside down face but it still saw a lot >Flaking off, breaking off, crumbled and cracking >Time will destroy you like a Mexican god I see it as the archaeologist slowly unearthing the fallen head of some stone idol. I'm probably completely wrong about this bit, but to me the first line always reminds me that the discovery of a lot of Central American archaeological sites was from the air (could chip-chip-chipper be the sound of a helicopter? Or is that too far fetched?) also, there's another part which can be (deliberately?) read two ways: "This is the evil I wished on so many Time will destroy you like a Mexican god" = I wish that time would destroy you like it destroyed the Mexican gods. OR: "This is the evil eye, wished on so many Time will destroy you like a Mexican god" = You will be destroyed by the relentless, 'supernatural' force that is time (as relentless and supernatural as the old Mexican gods) James 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: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:38:43 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: PS For those who might be interested, the exhibition opening went really well - - and I've already sold two paintings! (admittedly, both to people I know, but still...). The gallery's on a pretty busy street, so hopefully a lot of passers-by will pop in to have a look over the next couple of weeks. Ah, I can relax and have my nervous breakdown now :) James 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: Mon, 06 May 2002 18:35:07 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Mexican God >From: "Aaron L." >Subject: Mexican God >Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 08:31:30 -0700 > >I remember hearing an interview with Robyn in which he talked about the >inspiration for "Mexican God" being a visit to Central/South America in >which he saw the statues of Aztec/Inca gods, dilapidated and crumbling due >to the passage of time. Thus, "Time will destroy you like a Mexican God" = >"Time wll destroy you like time destroyed the Mexican Gods." Aaron That is how I always understood it, one will always get one's comeuppance. Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 18:22:48 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Chicago / NYC Tree Well, as you may have noticed the Chicago show tree structure hasn't been posted yet...sorry to all for the delay, but hopefully you'll find it's been worthwhile. A better Chicago recording has surfaced and, through the grace it's owner, been offered to fegmaniax for distribution. I'm very glad for this, it was a smashing show and I'm afraid my version didn't do it justice! So that's a big part of the reason. The second part is that we are going to try and tree the NYC shows at the same time, pending a determination of the best one. My understanding is that this very issue is in committee as we speak. So if you haven't signed up, here's your chance; email me at this addy before Friday and add on to the large and growing tree. *if you already signed up for the Chicago-only tree and have heard back from me, no need to sign up again * Again apologies for the waiting, but things seem to be working out for the best. Michael listening like a maniac to the new Rush album ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 21:52:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: love me tender On Mon, 6 May 2002, ross taylor wrote: > to a mix of put-down & non-put-down. I can't > remember, but wasn't it around then that his > "Blind, ignorant n---" remark about Ray Charles > happened? Y'know, as obnoxious as this whole incident was, I still give Elvis a fair amount of exculpation, because (a) the point of the insult was to come up with the best possible way to insult yr Stephen Stillses, Bonnie Raitts, etc. - and tearing at their middle-class uber-liberal guilty afrophilia was it. Had he been sober, he probably would've realized the obvious likelihood of its being taken literally rather than as a species of scientific experiment ("hmm...exactly where can I stick this heated metal poker to cause precisely the most pain?") - but (b) he very wasn't. And (c) he's apologized for it. I think, given the totality of EC's career, that it's manifestly absurd to claim he's a racist (which was, of course, the reaction at the time). - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::the sea is the night asleep in the daytime:: __Robert Desnos__ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 23:17:45 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Tales From The Underwater. I am about to delete Tales From The Underwater from my computer. If anyone is interested in a copy before I do so please let me know. Max _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 23:04:53 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Mexican God At 06:35 PM 5/6/2002 -0400, Maximilian Lang wrote: >>From: "Aaron L." >>Subject: Mexican God >>Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 08:31:30 -0700 >> >>I remember hearing an interview with Robyn in which he talked about the >>inspiration for "Mexican God" being a visit to Central/South America in >>which he saw the statues of Aztec/Inca gods, dilapidated and crumbling due >>to the passage of time. Thus, "Time will destroy you like a Mexican God" = >>"Time wll destroy you like time destroyed the Mexican Gods." Aaron > > >That is how I always understood it, one will always get one's comeuppance. I take the song's essential meaning to be what Max just said, but I can't accept the paragraph of Aaron L.'s with which he's agreeing! To get back to some of what Quail was saying, or what I think he was saying, I strongly believe that there's *supposed* to be a deliberate ambiguity in the song. It doesn't have to be an either/or between "Time will destroy you like time destroyed the Mexican Gods" vs. "Time will kick your ass in a dark and unimaginable way like a Mexican God would rip your still-beating heart out, devour it, and make you watch the whole thing while you writhe in torment." It can be either, or it can be both, depending on your mood or Robyn's. Why must everyone want to shackle the song to a single meaning? (Drew, this may be your cue.) later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 21:20:20 -0700 From: The other Mr Feg Subject: Will the *real* Mexican God please step forward? Nope. You're all wrong. All of you. Every one! ;) This song is so clear you could walk right through it! (...and thanks Quail for posting the complete lyrics) The singer is imagining (or looking at) the decaying remains of an old Mayan, Incan or Aztec temple. He sees the head of a statue which has fallen and is now upside down, the rock flaking and crumbling with age. Over time, that face would certainly have seen a lot. Unlike historic western cultures, these entire civilizations have been completely forgotten. We now know hardly anything about them. Indeed, time *has* destroyed them - simply through their being forgotten - more completely even than nature has destroyed their buildings. The Mexican God depicted in the fallen statue was once known and feared - is now unknown, powerless ...destroyed. He then contemplates that there are some things that are best forgotten. Horrible atrocities (including those associated with these temples, perhaps?) are expunged when the memory of them is ended by death. The "you" in this verse is not a person. It refers to those memories. The last verse refers to the human sacrifices that took place in those temples. Hearts were cut from living victims, people were burned alive and so on. The singer imagines himself as a victim on the temple altar and - as if with knowledge of the future - he curses "Time will destroy you like a Mexican God!". YMMV. But that's how I read it. ~N > > * * * * * * > Chip-chip-chipper up in the crow's nest > Upside down face but it still saw a lot > Flaking off, breaking off, crumbled and cracking > Time will destroy you like a Mexican god > > Dreaming your eyes away, closed to the future > Pray for amnesia to finish you off > This is the evil I wished on so many > Time will destroy you like a Mexican god > > Moon in a cup, crushed garlic and babies > Sailors all stagnant and bloating and rough > The horror of you floats so close by my window > At least when I die, your memory will too > > Cruel, magnificent, roasting your people > I am secure at the end of your rod > Cut out my heart and it flies to the ceiling > Time will destroy you like a Mexican god ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 21:50:19 -0700 From: The other Mr Feg Subject: Balloon Kids!! Any Fegs with kids will get a kick out of this! This is SO unbelievable I just have to share: My nine year old daughter came home today and asked, "Daddy, do you know a song called Balloon Man?". "Sure", I said, "but you don't mean the one that goes: [sings] I was walking up 6th Avenue...?" "Yes, that's the one! We're doing it in music!" ...It's true! Worse than becoming elevator music, Robyn's songs are now sing-along material for third-graders! Apparently Balloon Man will be among the songs performed at the end of year school concert for the benefit of the assembled parents(!). Needless to say, my opinion of this particular teacher just changed considerably. Any other folks have stories of discovering Robyn songs in unexpected contexts? ~N BTW When I played her the actual track (before that she'd only heard the teacher play it on piano), it was clear that he had skipped the lines with "And it rained like a slow divorce"... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 22:52:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Clean up in Aisle 9 I was in a local grocery store (In Buffalo, ny) and I was shopping (getting beer and chips) and they had the 10,000 maniacs cover of the roxy music song. I was walking thru the store singing it and I ran into John Lombardo and Mary Ramsey shopping for goodies for a party they were going to. I smiled and said hi to john, whom I have shared many a few pints with. Just very odd thing to experience. Then on the way home I saw Ani Difranco parking her VW Beetle in front of the Indie Coffee house. I think I have run into all the semi-famous people I am destined to meet this year. Herbie np -> "The Scorpion King" on the DISCOVERY CHANNEL ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 00:54:48 -0700 From: Eclipse Subject: re: put-downs there are many, many awesome putdowns in songs by the Jesus Lizard as well. one of my favorites: "Presumptuous is not such a big word For one as smart as you are" or "I will pay your slut mother One-half of one dollar If she'll come and sleep with the band" never one to mince words, that David Yow :) Eclipse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eclipse eclipse@tuliphead.com Kindness towards all things is the true religion. - Buddha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 01:56:55 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Off the Beaten Path Hey there-- I decided to put together a disc or two of Hitchcock/Soft Boys/Nigel & the Crosses songs that I had on CD, from commercial sources, but weren't really that handy for playing in the car, and are often difficult to replace. I know there are more, but they're not coming to me at the moment. These are the guidelines--a) song is available on CD, b) not a regular album version or a bootleg, and c) Robyn is featured prominently in the song, rather than being an extra voice or guitar. Some of these might be on more common discs that I forgot, if so please point it out to me. Here goes the first shot: I Something You Zipper in My Spine (from the My Wife and My Dead Wife CD single) Watch Your Intelligence (So You Think You're in Love CD single) The Ghost Ship (Balloon Man CD single-different than the You & Oblivion version) When I Was Dead (Andy's edit) Driving Aloud (Radio Storm) (alternate vocals)-both from Spectre Wild Mountain Thyme (Nigel & the Crosses-from Time Between, a Tribute to the Byrds) Statue With a Walkman (from the Sequel sampler) The Live-in Years (Yip Song CD single) Broken Heart (from the Skip Spence tribute-More Oar) She Was Sinister But She Was Happy (demo) (Succour-Terrascope Benefit album) Gigolo Aunt Let It Be Me (from the Live & Direct sampler) Kung Fu Fighting (from Alvin Lives in Leeds) Ring Them Bones Take This in Remembrance Eerie Green Storm Lantern (from A Middle Class Hero) Your Day Will Come (a) (with the Minus 5 "Let the War Against Music Begin") Your Day Will Come (b) (with the Minus 5-alternate version, from the promo sampler) Arms of Love (live) (from the Best of Mountain Stage Live-vol. 2) It's All Over Now Baby Blue Desolation Row Dignity (all from the Beautiful Queen promo CD) Let Me Roll It (Soft Boys, from the McCartney tribute, Listen to What the Man Said) Clean Steve Glass Hotel My Wife and My Dead Wife Arms of Love When I was Dead Withered and Died A Day in the Life (all live, from the Live Death promo disc) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 08:55:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: the time factor I've always looked at Mexican God in an Ozymandius kind of way (statue of once great god/ruler lying in ruins and decaying). The crushed garlic and babies bit turns my stomach somewhat (are the babies crushed, too? I hear it that way). Still, I love the song. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 08:43:55 -0500 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: Balloon Kids!! > Needless to say, my opinion of this particular teacher just changed > considerably. I wish ours had been as cool. Our sole choral diversion into the popular songbook (apart from the annual Spring musical - "Hello Dolly" and the like) was Barry Manilow's "Ships." No wonder I got into Black Sabbath at such a young age. > Any other folks have stories of discovering Robyn songs in unexpected > contexts? Well, it's not a different context but my three year-olds love the "Brenda of the Lightbulb Eyes" video set, primarily RCE ("Daddy, hats don't fly ), and MWTLB ("Daddy, watch lightbulb head new video? I LIKE it"). And of course OLPOE and MOTW are fun too, though my wife and I are having a continuing debate over the black coat-and-bowler look for RH. If it's raining and they need to burn off some energy I'll pop that tape in and let 'em dance around the living room, my son having removed every stitch of clothing first. Lamarck was right, some things are inherited. I sit dumbfounded on the couch and watch them with this stupid grin on my face, these are my kids and they're dancing to Robyn Hitchcock. > BTW When I played her the actual track (before that she'd only heard the > teacher play it on piano), it was clear that he had skipped the lines > with "And it rained like a slow divorce"... Too bad, it's the best line in the song. Michael "baboon man" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 09:46:20 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Will the *real* Mexican God please step forward? Nick, you are wrong! So very, inexcusably, unutterably, wrong! You could write a hundred interpretations, and they'd be every bit as wrong as James Dignan's! Only my interpretation is right, and even my Magic 8-Ball says so. >The singer is imagining (or looking at) the decaying remains of an old >Mayan, Incan or Aztec temple. He sees the head of a statue which has >fallen and is now upside down, the rock flaking and crumbling with age. >Over time, that face would certainly have seen a lot. Ah, but the relevant lyric is "Time will destroy you like a Mexican God." The key word is *like*, making this into a metaphor. To me, that indicates that the singer is not directly addressing any crumbling Aztec ruins -- he is using the Aztecs as an extended metaphor, one with a clever ambiguous double-meaning in the word like. (Which allows Time to both be destroyer of Mexican Gods, while simultaneously taking on their destructive power itself, which renders the abstract "time" more human by giving it the cruel attributes of a deity.) >He then contemplates that there are some things that are best forgotten. >Horrible atrocities (including those associated with these temples, >perhaps?) are expunged when the memory of them is ended by death. The >"you" in this verse is not a person. It refers to those memories. I disagree again. I think the lyrics are too personal. >The last verse refers to the human sacrifices that took place in those >temples. Hearts were cut from living victims, people were burned alive >and so on. The singer imagines himself as a victim on the temple altar >and - as if with knowledge of the future - he curses "Time will destroy >you like a Mexican God!". It certainly refers to human sacrifices -- but uses them again as a metaphor for the singer's almost worshipful attachment to the cruel object of his pain. It may be helpful to know that many human sacrifices *welcomed* their fate. (That is, once they perceived it as culturally inevitable. I am sure they would still rather have lived.) To be given the "flowery death" was an honor. I still see the song as a lament. The singer is haunted by an image of someone/something that he once loved, someone/something who was cruel to him, terrible; and yet held him utterly in thrall. Now that the relationship is long over, he cannot banish her(?) memory, nor the power she(?) held over him, and he realizes that only time will offer a solution -- by erasing them all, the singer, the object, and the memory itself. As Borges once wrote late in his life, after his death, countless people would pass away with him, for he was the only one left alive who remembered their voice, and could recall their face. Of course, my interpretation is complicated because of the constant references to some physical object. And why the nautical imagery? Crow's nest? Drowned sailors? Floats? I almost feel like the "object" of the song might be the figurehead of a ship. Perhaps the singer is not referring at all to a real person, but a ship and its subsequent wreck? - --Quail >> Chip-chip-chipper up in the crow's nest >> Upside down face but it still saw a lot >> Flaking off, breaking off, crumbled and cracking >> Time will destroy you like a Mexican god >> >> Dreaming your eyes away, closed to the future >> Pray for amnesia to finish you off >> This is the evil I wished on so many >> Time will destroy you like a Mexican god >> >> Moon in a cup, crushed garlic and babies >> Sailors all stagnant and bloating and rough >> The horror of you floats so close by my window >> At least when I die, your memory will too >> >> Cruel, magnificent, roasting your people >> I am secure at the end of your rod >> Cut out my heart and it flies to the ceiling >> Time will destroy you like a Mexican god ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:00:23 -0400 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: RE: Balloon Kids!! > > Any other folks have stories of discovering Robyn songs in > unexpected > > contexts? > > Well, it's not a different context but my three year-olds > love the "Brenda > of the Lightbulb Eyes" video set... > If it's raining and they need to burn off some energy I'll > pop that tape in > and let 'em dance around the living room, my son having > removed every stitch > of clothing first. Lamarck was right, some things are inherited. I sit > dumbfounded on the couch and watch them with this stupid grin > on my face, > these are my kids and they're dancing to Robyn Hitchcock. Heh. I propose we hijack this thread and twist the subject matter to our own purposes (which, needless to say, will be a first in the long history of Fegmaniax list decorum), as I, too, have little tykes who love them some RH (actually, Max (6) prefers SBs). 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