From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #160 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 17 2002 Volume 11 : Number 160 Today's Subjects: ----------------- early music memories [mike hooker ] unKool ["rubrshrk@harborside.com" ] overheated in toronto [*rand - buzup buzup buzup buzup buzup ah ha* ] Re: Music/Bach/Sweden/Aphaville/Novel ["Brian Hoare" ] Star Wars (Yup, you knew it was coming) [The Great Quail ] 666 and all that ["ross taylor" ] Re: 666 and all that ["matt sewell" ] Re: 666 and all that ["Mike Wells" ] My cultivator is a tuning pitchfork ["Sloe Rose" ] Re: 666 and all that [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] moldy Moulding ["Natalie Jane" ] Address Change ["Thomas, Ferris" ] moldy Moulding ["Natalie Jane" ] "Fuck Heineken! Pabst Blue Ribbon!" [glen uber ] Robyn's novel ["victorian squid" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 20:08:03 -0400 From: mike hooker Subject: early music memories hi, the thread of early music memories has brought on a flood of my own. i will always remember the first time i heard the abbey road album. i was too young ( 10) to really appreciate it, but i knew right then that something special had happened. the opening notes of here comes the sun, then george telling me it's alright . i still love george harrison,and listen to his music at least once a week. i also remember my first clock radio. what a piece of shit. it would go off with a loud clunk that would jolt me awake, as some sort of primitive switch would be set off by the movement of the hour hand to the needle that set the wake up time. by the time the friggin tubes warmed up and there was music , i would be wide awake. it never once gave me ther pleasure of waking up to music. still pisses me off. ps- anyone around my age of 43 and grew up in the NY area ought to check out spike lee's crooklyn. great movie and wonderful soundtrack. please see my music trading page: New URL http://hometown.aol.com/mhooker216/myhomepage/index.html being its AOL, its not always up. try it a few times, or ask me for a text list. thanks have fun, mike hooker ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:00:00 -0400 From: "rubrshrk@harborside.com" Subject: unKool Hello. Let me begin by saying that I fear not your wrath. (I do find it comical that Rolling Stoned gagazine has proclaimed themselves judge and executioner of cool, which is more than a bit like Dan Quayle calling himself the god of spelling or wisdom or [our] Chris Franz representing the lollypop guild.) I think these are extremely cool: King Crimson Zappa Stan Ridgway/Wall of Voodoo (nobody else seems to get how cool Stan is) Robyn Hitchcock Steely Dan Negativland They Might Be Giants Cure Smiths Warren Zevon Maybe less cool, but still very cool in my mind: Talking Heads School of Fish (first album) Brian Dewan (next album may push him into the top group) Dire Straits Laurie Anderson Pink Floyd Billy Bragg Bowie The Who (they don't just sing about castles and shit) Though y'all have dispensed fecal matter in my direction for my musical opinions, these cherished bands have provided y'all some great fodder in the past: Tuff Darts Toto (toad-o) B52's Depeche Mode Dregs Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark Happies, Markg "Gloster is a big dork." -j. a. brelin - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 22:17:51 -0400 From: *rand - buzup buzup buzup buzup buzup ah ha* Subject: overheated in toronto Having had one of the worst days of my life today ... a definite top ten ... I want to thank the *mysterious* feg who noticed the Horseshoe Robyn gig. Stewart, I hope your wife will come along. Ross, you have to drive in. Caroline, I will drag you out of work all by myself. I am going to organize 'feg-bash-Toronto-2002' ~ and I hope lots of you will join me. {I'd look fairly stupid sitting at the "Ms. Feg" table alone} Maybe some other out of towners? I'm overly excited in contrast to my day ... so pardon my ramblings. fading back into yesterday before tomorrow comes, Randi Toronto, Ontario, Canada *what scares you most will set you free* ~ Robyn Hitchcock *by endurance we conquer* ~ Sir Ernest Shackleton ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:00:19 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: RIP Did I see an RIP for Speedy Keen of Thunderclap Newman? It was only when I saw the obituary in the Independent that I discovered that apart from writing 'Something in the Air', he also wrote 'Armenia City in the Sky' and produced LAMF (what a record!) for Johnny Thunders, and also Motorhead's first album. - - MRG PS The obit. claimed that "it was the only time the Who performed a song written by someone outside the group", but this is nonsense. Offhand, I can think of: Please please please (James Brown) Bucket T (Jan & Dean) Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran) Checking the discographies, I can also see: I'm a man (Bo Diddley) Barbara Ann (Freddie Frassart, whoever he is) Shakin' all over (Johnny Kidd) Shout and shimmy (James Brown) Admittedly 'Please please please' is the only one of these that actually appeared on a studio album - the rest were all B-sides, EP tracks and stuff from 'Live at Leeds'. I have a notion that they recorded Marvin Gaye's "Baby don't do it" somewhere, but it isn't in the discography. Have I imagined this? n.p. "The thousand and tenth day of the human totem pole". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:26:04 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: Re: Music/Bach/Sweden/Aphaville/Novel James: >Musically, my awakening came when I started watching a late night TV music >programme in my early teens ("Grunt Machine"), and it awoke me to what was >happening in music - particularly in the UK. I can still remember that the >first show I saw had XTC's "Are you receiving me?" and Elvis Costello's >"Watching the detectives" on it. What an introduction to REAL music! I can remember when these (and other post punk/new wave) acts started appearing on TOTP. It took me a while longer to find the OGWT and John Peel. It's also the time when I realised that there was a lot more music being made than day time radio 1 was telling me and that is wasn't necessarily showing me the best. I was a miffed when the Dickies single I bought (I got it after hearing a friend's copy - I don't know where he heard it) didn't get played on the radio. I had assumed that R1 played everything. Sebastian: >That's funny. I haven't thought of Alphaville for awhile. Didn't think that >anyone knew them abroad - except for Japan, of course :-) The only Alphaville I've heard was played to me last year by a couple of South African emigrants. Apparantly popular material at an 80s/alternative/indie/goth club over there. >Sweden?? Why Sweden? Do we have any listmembers from Sweden??? (not >Swedene!) Didn't he play Stockholm at Christmas a couple of years back. I'm sure someone posted a setlist/review of this. Randi: >Any how ... I've been dying to know about the book so I thought I'd >share. I'm scared that it will be poor. I certainly coudn't cope with a novel length version of his sleeve liner short stories and I can't predict what other style he'd use. Of course I hope that it is brilliant but I await the new SB album with more eagerly. Matt: >I would quite happily spend all eternity listening to Bach, and, as he >would (presumably) be there, you'd have the benefit of all his new >albums,too. "Yes Bach, Bach is pure music". My brother Rupert "Ugg, I thought I liked everything he wrote" My guitar teacher when he played through a gavotte I had picked for a grade exam and was having trouble getting the music out of. >He replied - wait for it - " I'm decomposing!" I once heard a short "story" that was stuffed with the names of composers. The only line I remember is "The dogs would Offenbach and Bach". Kay: >I pretty much accepted whatever I stumbled across. This wasnt music I >owned, >it was music I heard cause other people were playing it. And when the songs >I loved came on it was like a benison from some unknown god. Luck you (meant sincerely). Before I found "my" music, music was no more important than childrens tv shows, magicians, comedians, books, Dr Who, model aircraft or boardgames. >"I'm afraid of librarians -- they have whips and high heels." In my time at libraries I have never encountered such a librarian, assisstant librarian or library assistant who even hinted that whips and high heels may be available. We did have a stunning goth princess with us when I was temping as a book cataloguer, but we were just sticking barcodes in books and adding them to the database. brian np Golden Dawn : Power Plant "You're listening to "Boomer 102" CLASSIC rock - where we promise not to expose you to anything you haven't heard a million times before! We'll get right back to more hits from those high school days when your world stopped...but first, here's our critic to review the latest movie based on a '60s or '70s TV show!" Calvin and Hobbes _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:05:44 +0100 (BST) From: crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com Subject: summer in the city Stewart writted >Please don't mention the two Edinburgh gigs >I'm missing by not being in >Scotland. Yeah, first time this millennium I won't be able to make Hitch's gigs in my dad's hometown. For those interested I'm playing a Brian-Glover-in-Kes style PE instructor in a play called Friendly Matches, based on the poetry of kids' writer Allan Ahlberg, at Polka Children's Theatre in Wimbledon. Unca Nick Winkworth saw me giving my Friar Tuck there a couple of years back and seemed to enjoy it. Anyone with kids between 6-12 get in touch/come on down. Will be able to make the Dulwich do on June 3rd though. Who else will be going to that? Matt, Tony, Jonathan. New albums I've liked recently - Mary Lorson, Mighty Flashlight, Guided By Voices, Pere Ubu, Lol Coxhill retrospective (for any quirky jazzers out there) and, for blues fans, the completely brilliant Otis Taylor on Northern Blues label outta Toronto (Stewart and Canuckfegs). He sounds like John Lee Hooker with a politics degree produced by Eno or Badalamenti. Best new blues artist I've heard for simply years. Couple of tracks from his new album, Respect The Dead, and one from his previous one, White African, feature in the soundtrack to Billy Bob Thornton's newie, The Badge. Crowbar Joe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:53:50 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: overheated in toronto *rand - buzup buzup buzup buzup buzup ah ha* wrote: > > Stewart, I hope your wife will come along. yeah, Catherine usually comes to Robyn's shows. It will be fun. Stewart - -- Gandalf Graphics Limited, Markham, Ontario, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:59:47 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Star Wars (Yup, you knew it was coming) So, LJ and I saw "Attack of the Clones" yesterday evening, and I have to say, I thought it was pretty good! It was *certainly* better than the Phantom Menace, that's for sure. I have to admit, I was really worried about it, primarily because I thought that the kid playing Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) would be lame -- which is reasonable, based on what I saw of him in the previews. I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that in context of the whole movie, he did a good job. I thought he'd be played as a Dawson-Creek style teenager who is basically good but vacuous, until a catastrophic event places him on the path of evil. But from the very beginning, his character was a lot darker than I was expecting -- he does some rather surprising things, and he actually espouses the political viewpoints I would expect from a young Darth Vader. (I though the politics overall were fascinating, and I have to admit, at times I was geekishly thrilled to be seeing the development of the Empire!) And the tension between Anakin and Obi Wan was well played (more thanks to the actors themselves than the dialogue, which while better than Episode I, still had some cringe-worthy elements.) Ewan McGregor has grown into the role, his Obi Wan obviously having difficulty balancing his own rebellious tendencies with his responsibilities to train his even more extreme disciple. Their relationship had both genuine warmth and believable tension, two things missing from "Phantom Menace." Even the romance wasn't as cheesy as I thought it would be, although the dialogue again was a bit awkward. And a greater attention to humanity was brought to secondary characters as well -- Jango and Boba Fett were actually sympathetic, and Christopher Lee's Count Saruman (Oops, "Dooku") was a much better bad guy than the underdeveloped Darth Maul. And, yeah, Jar Jar is in it again, but his screen time is mercifully short, and his idiocy is actually exploited by the bad guys. And Watto is also present, looking even more like a distasteful Semitic stereotype. (But at least there were Jawas! More Jawas!!! I want Episoide III to be called "The Jawa Jubilee.") Needless to say, the special effects were fantastic, and there's a chase scene through the cities of Coruscant that just blew me away -- it took "The Fifth Element" and crossed it with the planet Trantor from Asimov's "Foundation" series, and then raised it to the power of Indiana Jones. And the final battle -- heh heh. The CGI characters were a bit uneven, however, with some faring better than others. I wish that Yoda would remain a muppet, though -- the CGI Yoda doesn't seem quite real enough, although later he gets to do some pretty cool stuff. I just think the muppet Yoda has more personality and warmth. So overall, while it was still a bit stilted and corny at times, I found it more mature, darker, exciting, and simply cooler than the last one. John Williams even managed to show some renewed interest in the score. Anyway, I plan on seeing it again while it's in the theaters.... - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:33:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: RIP On Fri, 17 May 2002, Michael R Godwin wrote: > Did I see an RIP for Speedy Keen of Thunderclap Newman? It was only when I > > PS The obit. claimed that "it was the only time the Who performed a song > written by someone outside the group", but this is nonsense. Offhand, I > can think of: I think they meant "only time the Who performed a song written by someone outside the group that that person hadn't yet recorded himself" but that's not very pithy. But he recorded it later, didn't he? Or am I all wrong on the chronology, and therefore you're completely right and the obit's nonsense? "Only time the Who performed a song written by someone outside the group that wasn't a typical rock'n'roll cover song"? - --Jeff Jeffrey Norman, Posemodernist University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dept. of Mumblish & Competitive Obliterature http://www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:36:41 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: 666 and all that Heavenly music -- In Randy Newman's Faust he casts James Taylor as God. God has some funny call & response w/ a gospel choir: God[JT]--Buddah and Mohammed showed up at the Pearly gates. Heavenly Host -- What'd ya do, Lord? God -- I had to put 'em out with the trash. I think I've waxed about this record before, but it's surprisingly good for something w/ James Taylor, Linda Rhondstat & Don Henley. Main problem is Newman's idea of rocking out is truly uncool, & the story requires rock. Douglas Adams praised it. - --- Musical awakenings -- One of those little transistor radios about the size of a pack of cigaretts ... oh, well cigaretts are things people used to smoke, and anyway it was about the size of a palm pilot & you held it next to your ear or even laid your head on it going to sleep at nite. I mean Sam the Sham & the Pharos are better than thinking you hear a giant spider slithering up the stairs. Summer of '66. Over Under Sideways Down -- plus The Ballad of the Green Berets by Sgt. Barry Sadler. Probably part of why Kay & I are so open to uncool stuff is the makeup of top 40 radio in the 60s. Don't know if it was like that in U.K. That's part of the weird thing about Abba -- what kind of non-rock music comes from places that don't have country music, don't even have *much* native r&b? I mean folk or older popular music is different in Germany, Italy, Sweden, France etc. I assume. In Baltimore in the early 70s I remember hearing a bunch of Greeks (who spoke Greek among themselves, & must've been fairly recent imigrants) who had a sort of rock band -- sounded a bit like the Doors but more Greek. Complicates things. - --- Randi -- your message to (I assume) the other Ross reminded me -- I tried to respond to your email but it bounced. You must be one of those people whose email doesn't like Eudora (like JH3). I basically told you a bit of who I am -- librarian, dad, baby boomer, another person w/ a literary bent, another person who has had troubles & gotten sympathy from the list. Thanks for the news re. the Robyn book. Ross Taylor there's no place that I'd rather be than right here with my red neck, white sox and blue ribbon beer - --[?don't know name of the band?] Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 16:45:14 +0100 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: 666 and all that >From: "ross taylor" >In Baltimore in the >early 70s I remember hearing a bunch of Greeks >(who spoke Greek among themselves, & must've >been fairly recent imigrants) who had a sort of >rock band -- sounded a bit like the Doors but >more Greek. Not Aphrodite's Child? They had the cult hit album 666? AC were actually driven by Vangelis (or Vangelis Papathanissiou as he's credited on the album). This album includes the fantastic Four Horsemen track - surely Demis Rousoss' finest moment... Cheers Matt >From: "ross taylor" >Reply-To: "ross taylor" >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: 666 and all that >Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:36:41 -0400 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:16:39 -0500 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: 666 and all that "ross taylor" recalls: > Heavenly music -- > > In Randy Newman's Faust he casts James Taylor as > God. God has some funny call & response w/ a > gospel choir: This one won my "most pleasantly surprised by" award when I saw it at the Goodman Theater. I didnt' really get a vibe off of the music either way, except that it fit in quite well with the staging...but I really had no expectations that David Garrison from "Married with Children" would be so good as the Devil, he completely stole the show. I only found out afterwards he was (is) an accomplished stage actor. Michael "to Hell with the Devil" Wells who has an assortment of nearly worthless Stryper albums, including a couple on flourescent vinyl ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 16:18:38 +0000 From: "Sloe Rose" Subject: My cultivator is a tuning pitchfork Setlist from Largo, "Idonia"--he played that in NY I think. Liked it much -- but then I have a weakness for place(or states of mind) names that start with I(Iona, Ithica, Interia Da-sein.) - ----------------------- Thank you Drew for the LiveJournal suggestion. - ----------------------- James, I think the best thing about post 12-year-old taste is when you hear music calling your name. Late night shows are especially good for that. Its like your the only person up hearing this stuff. - ---------------------- God(or perhaps the God behind God or Aynt Sophie or Zer Voyd) creates the tunes, then leaves them around for others to find. The devil grabs up as many as he can, thou he cant grab them all--as Bach, Handel, Von Williams, Britton, Palestrata, Byrd, Tallis and a few others attest. However, since he does have alot of them, and you always know you can get some there(vr having to navigate otherwise unexplored aspects of creation, which can be ardorous and involve hights) most people do go to the devil for their tunes. The interesting thing is the price the devil exacts. He gages what he can get away with asking. From the person -sure- that -only- the devil can supply tunes, he extracts everything, leaving, well, lets not go there. From the ones who bring a long spoon, he asks for less, but steals more. To the ones who try to flatter or manipulate, he gives the worse. To the ones, thou, who act like an angel, fallen or unfallen, well, that melts into other stories which have not yet been told, but which are better than any story you have yet to hear. What is not commonly known is that God sometimes dresses up as the devil to give tunes out. There are certain folks who need tunes but have a very hard time asking for anything, let alone something they really need cause, fuck, that just means really getting messed over, now dosnt it? Theres no way they'd ever approuch God(why the hell would he give a damn?) but they will deal with the devil cause hey, he'll talk to anybody. Then of course sometimes the devil dresses up as a mangy God, but usually gives himself away by telling people that they're all going to hell unless they do something horrid, which he calls good, in order to go to heaven. And of course sometimes God or the devil dresses up as the devil dressed up as the devil dressed up as God in blues suede highheeled sneakers. And since - -thats- when the tunes really start to get going, Im not giving anymore away. Kay, dancing "I'm afraid of librarians -- they have whips and high heels." Andrei Codrescu _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:20:19 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: 666 and all that crap On Fri, 17 May 2002, ross taylor wrote: > That's part of the weird thing about Abba -- > what kind of non-rock music comes from places > that don't have country music, don't even have > *much* native r&b? but they had radios full of American music. there are some really good c&w songs or performances from european artists. for years I thought clapton was a hick. and the best elvis impersonators and rock-a-billy bands are asian or japanese (you gotta be careful with that distinction, still), or irish. American culture has for many years been a world staple and accepted mostly unequivocally unless banned by the foreign governments and even then sometimes huge underground societies have developed just to experience or partake in the American experience whatever way possible. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:28:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: 666 and all that On Fri, 17 May 2002, ross taylor wrote: > That's part of the weird thing about Abba -- what kind of non-rock music > comes from places that don't have country music, don't even have *much* > native r&b? I mean folk or older popular music is different in Germany, > Italy, Sweden, France etc. I assume. Hmmm.... On the one hand, yes, the influence of whatever folk or older pop is around would presumably show up - but at least nowadays, I'm not so sure that the absence of bands playing, say, country, is going to make that much of a difference to a band that wants to know and love the music. Because the music itself is available - if not CDs, then MP3s and the like. If I wanted to, I'm sure I could decide to learn everything there is to know about, uh, Italian prog rock in the '90s, and if I wanted to start a band in that style, the only thing that would prevent my music from being "authentic" would be whatever limitations the band has as musicians. I don't think style is in the blood, and it's only to an extent in the atmosphere. I think it's primarily in the grooves (well, okay, the laser-etched array of binaries). Of course, if you've heard only a small number of records of genre X, and you're not really sure what's characteristic and what's idiosyncratic about them, you may well get it wrong...as in the middle eight of "I Call Your Name," which I'd read somewhere was John Lennon's very early attempt to do reggae (or whatever proto-reggae was around at that time). Pet peeve: classical music reviewers who write things like "Khrushchensky's Russian heritage expressed itself in his simpatico rendering of the Shostakovich..." - as if somehow, by virtue of having Russian descent, the guy's going to just automatically be better able to interpret the music of someone else of Russian descent? What, there's "Russian-ness" in music in the genes? I'll read this sort of thing even if the musician in question never lived in Russia, even if the composer has been dead two hundred years, etc. - --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: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:31:44 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: moldy Moulding >God, what the hell is up with him? Slog, slog, slog... When AV1 came >out, >I cut him some slack - and "Frivolous Tonight" does provide a >bit of >contrast to the general heavygoingness of that CD (my take at >http://www.uwm.edu/~jenor/XTCRev.html), but "Fruit Nut" is >forgettable, >and his trudges on _Wasp Star_ are so forgettable I >forget their titles. You're preaching to the choir, buddy. Good review, by the way. >Apparently, Robyn's finished his book and has actually given it to an >agent who will then shop around for a publisher. Does anyone besides me have the sneaking suspicion that Robyn's book will be a rambling, incoherent, unreadable mess? n. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:18:23 -0400 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: Address Change Hello, All. Due to a facility closing, this email address will cease being valid after Friday, the 24th of May. Please re-direct any and all mailings to my home address: ferris@ochremedia.com. I hope that life is treating you all well and best wishes. ________________________________ Ferris Scott Thomas Lead Programmer The Production Group McGraw-Hill Education 860.409.2612 ferris_thomas@mcgraw-hill.com (email) "When you see ten troubles rolling down the road, if you don't do anything, nine of them will roll into the ditch before they get to you." -Calvin Coolidge This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:30:39 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: moldy Moulding >God, what the hell is up with him? Slog, slog, slog... When AV1 came >out, >I cut him some slack - and "Frivolous Tonight" does provide a >bit of >contrast to the general heavygoingness of that CD (my take at >http://www.uwm.edu/~jenor/XTCRev.html), but "Fruit Nut" is >forgettable, >and his trudges on _Wasp Star_ are so forgettable I >forget their titles. You're preaching to the choir, buddy. Good review, by the way. >Apparently, Robyn's finished his book and has actually given it to an >agent who will then shop around for a publisher. Does anyone besides me have the sneaking suspicion that Robyn's book will be a rambling, incoherent, unreadable mess? n. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:20:40 -0700 From: glen uber Subject: "Fuck Heineken! Pabst Blue Ribbon!" ross earnestly scribbled: >there's no place that I'd rather be than right here >with my red neck, white sox and blue ribbon beer >--[?don't know name of the band?] Johnny Russell, best known as the songwriter of "Act Naturally". - -- Cheers! - -g- "Start your own revolution and cut out the middle man." - --Billy Bragg glen uber =+= blint (at) mac dot com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:41:53 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Robyn's novel On Fri, 17 May 2002 10:31:44 Natalie Jane wrote: >Does anyone besides me have the sneaking suspicion that >Robyn's book will be a rambling, incoherent, unreadable >mess? I think it will be very much like Bob Dylan's "Tarantula". "Tarantula" is not a complete disaster. It's very witty in some parts (this is where I got my old nick "Truman Peyote") and very poetic in a few others. But "rambling, incoherent mess" definitely predominates. It is the kind of thing that only fans would really be up for making a serious try at, which I'm pretty sure "The Unbaby" will be too. loveonya, susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #160 ********************************