From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #185 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, June 7 2002 Volume 11 : Number 185 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fitba, Kernow, Jimi [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Sam & Bob [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: DYLAN COVERS [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: "out, demons! out!" [steve ] Re: "out, demons! out!" [Miles Goosens ] Re: Dolphins play footy with place names! [rosso@videotron.ca] Re: "out, demons! out!" [steve ] Dylan covers [SIMON50@aol.com] Re: Fitba, Kernow, Jimi [noe shalev ] that round-ball code [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: that round-ball code ["matt sewell" ] DYLAN COVERS means hendrix covers ["ross taylor" ] Re: DYLAN COVERS means hendrix covers [Michael R Godwin ] CD9, CD9 [Miles Goosens ] Where? Downtown. When? Last night. [Michael R Godwin ] RE: Sam & Bob ["Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" ] a tale of robynware ["*twofangs.rand*" ] Re: "out, demons! out!" [Miles Goosens ] quiet day [Jill Brand ] Paging Brian Nupp ["Michael Wells" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:32:59 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Fitba, Kernow, Jimi I wrote: >netball is like basketball, only faster, more skilful, and (when played at >its top level) more skilful. It's played mainly by women. oh, and did I remember to mention that it's also more skilful? I think one of those should have been 'exciting'. >and on top of those there's australian football, aka aussie rules, >which is basically rugby without the main rules. are you referring to AFL or VFL Aussie rules? ;) (I think there's also a Canadian Rules Football which is very similar to American Football. Aussie Rules I've heard described as a cross between rugby and basketball, if those sports had been invented by kangaroos. And let's not forget Gaelic Football! - --- >I love the name Porthallow. Is that a real place? It sounds perfect. >St Keverne on the Lizard? Too good to be true. have a look at a map of the southwesternmost tip of England, and you'll find all sorts of nomenclative goodies. Mousehole anyone? Goldsithney? Coverack (also on the Lizard)? Halabezack? Or even Trebahwarta? - --- >The Jimi talk and listening to Capt. Feg's Bottom Line 4-12-02 show where he >covers "The Wind Cries Mary" got me wondering what the best Hendrix covers >have been. you haven't lived unless you've heard Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois' version of "May this be love" James (nursing a sore achilles tendon stretched while playing indoor soccer last night) 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: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 22:24:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Sam & Bob On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 rob@nimbus.demon.co.uk wrote: > grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > > > to be fair, it's only called the world series because it was sponsored by a > > newspaper called "The World". > > I believed this too until recently, when it was pointed out that it in fact appears to be an urban myth. > > http://www.snopes2.com/business/names/worldser.htm > > Is this true? Anyone? The "Snopes" site is generally accurate, yes. Plus, the whole "it's the 'World Series' because a paper called _The World_ sponsored it originally" line sounds highly dubious. Although I do think it would make baseball fun to have interleague play between leagues of other nations (notably Japan's), I think the grouchiness, baggy eyes, and grogginess of the world's soccer fans right now suggests one reason why not: bad enough if you live on the east coast of the US and your night game against a west coast team lasts until nearly 2 in the morning...now add several more hours to cover Japan's time, and it's difficult. And of course, difficult for the players as well. But a baseball equivalent of the World Cup - say, the winners of the North American World Series, Japan's champions (and what about Latin America - lots of baseball-mad folks down there) - would be interesting. It seems, though, that the best of those countries' players increasingly end up in the US anyway. (Who was I talking to recently about all those large, consonant-filled Eastern Europeans in pro basketball?) It's probably time for Miles to chip in here... - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::I can bellow like a clown school drill instructor:: __Brian Block__ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 22:34:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: DYLAN COVERS On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, glen uber wrote: > I really like Derek & the Dominoes' version of "Little Wing". I think > it's superior in every way to SRV's version. I think I heard SRV's version once - I thought, "okay, this guy *really, really, really* wishes he were Hendrix. But he's not." My vote for Derek & the Dominos' version - completely smoking, utterly rearranged, impassioned, etc. Shame about Clapton's career lately - although his accountants are quite pleased. Actually, I knew D&D's version for years before I heard the original - was quite surprised, and it took me some getting used to - but it's quite a nice little tune too. Quite possibly my favorite Hendrix song. As to Dylan covers...nothing really to add, except I'm having a hard time w/the Dead being on the "best" list. And I'm not one of those reflexive anti-Dead people - just don't think their version does that much. Oh - and I do like the Roches' version of that song about the washing line whose name I can't remember either. A local band used to do a version of "I'll Keep it with Mine" that they'd rearranged somewhat like an Elvis Costello-ized Motown number - quite effective, one of my favorite Dylan covers. I wish I could remember it better. (Considering that the guy who led the band is now my brother-in-law, I guess I could find out...) - --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 ::Drive ten thousand miles across America and you will know more about ::the country than all the institutes of sociology and political science ::put together. __Jean Baudrillard__ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 23:25:19 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: "out, demons! out!" On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 10:23 AM, Miles Goosens wrote: > "He's a Cluniac, Cluniac on the floor > And he's prayin' like he's never prayed before" > > what a feeling, This may come as a terrible shock, but Maniac was written by Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and allaround geek boy. - - Steve __________ Shortly after becoming Attorney General, John Ashcroft was headed abroad. An advance team showed up at the American embassy in the Hague to check out the digs, saw cats in residence, and got nervous. They were worried there might be a calico cat. No, they were told, no calicos. Visible relief. Their boss, they explained, believes calico cats are signs of the devil. - Andrew Tobias, 11/20/01 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 23:49:10 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: "out, demons! out!" At 11:25 PM 6/6/2002 -0500, steve wrote: >This may come as a terrible shock, but Maniac was written by Mark Cuban, >owner of the Dallas Mavericks and allaround geek boy. Steve, this is the first thing I've ever read of yours that I doubt in the least! Cuban is a maniac, "Maniac" could probably serve as his theme song, and for all I know Michael Sembello could be half-Cuban, but I always thought Sembello wrote "Maniac." A dubious distinction, to be sure (though the intro is cool)... later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:53:21 -0400 From: rosso@videotron.ca Subject: Re: Dolphins play footy with place names! On 6 Jun 2002, at 13:57, Glow Rose wrote: > Is there a web site somewhere with nothing but really evocative place-names? > There's poetry in names. I'm sure there's a thread with nothing but really evocative place- names...like Dildo, Newfoundland! Next.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 01:38:53 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: "out, demons! out!" On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 11:49 PM, Miles Goosens wrote: > At 11:25 PM 6/6/2002 -0500, steve wrote: > >This may come as a terrible shock, but Maniac was written by Mark > Cuban, > >owner of the Dallas Mavericks and allaround geek boy. > > Steve, this is the first thing I've ever read of yours that I doubt in > the least! Cuban is a maniac, "Maniac" could probably serve as his > theme song, and for all I know Michael Sembello could be half-Cuban, > but I always thought Sembello wrote "Maniac." A dubious distinction, > to be sure (though the intro is cool)... Cuban fessed up on his TV show a while back, and I don't *think* it was April 1. He said he wrote it under a pseudonym, and Amazon shows it as being by Sembello and Dennis Matkosky. I don't remember him saying he cowrote it, so maybe unknown songwriter gives up partial credit in order to sell his work? Cuban's mother is a piano teacher, and he was into music before starting his computer service company and broadcast.com. His brother said that he was pretty sure that he had heard Mark singing other songs around the house well before they became Top 40 hits, although he wouldn't comment on anything other than Maniac. Elaborate hoax or true story. Which would be more bizarre in MarkCubanworld? __________ Check it out - http://www.panic.com/audion/gallery/previews/paragon.jpg - - Steve __________ "We're not attacking Islam, but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God," the Rev. Franklin Graham, who spoke at President Bush's inauguration, said recently. "He's not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It's a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 03:10:09 EDT From: SIMON50@aol.com Subject: Dylan covers Worth checking out -- if only because Dylan never recorded them himself: Wanted Man - Nick Cave Love is a Four Letter Word - Joan Baez (why doesn't Robyn cover that one!) also of course, The Band - I shall be released (does it count if it was co-written by the person covering it?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:12:05 -0800 From: noe shalev Subject: Re: Fitba, Kernow, Jimi James Dignan> Aussie Rules I've heard described as a cross between rugby and basketball, James Dignan> if those sports had been invented by kangaroos. James Dignan> And let's not forget Gaelic Football! oh this is great do you mean the game the play like rugby but the goals are like in football (i.e. soccer)? it's late night favourite in our local sport channel in Israel :-) it's a great sport :-) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:51:17 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: that round-ball code YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Sixteen fucking years I've been waiting for that result. Take that, fiendish Argies! erm... sorry, don't know what came over me there... 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: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 15:45:41 +0100 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: that round-ball code Blimey - US beats Portugal, England beats Argentina, threat of nuclear war... what exciting times we live in..! Cheers Matt >From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) >Reply-To: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) >To: Holy smoe >Subject: that round-ball code >Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:51:17 +1200 > >YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! > >Sixteen fucking years I've been waiting for that result. Take that, >fiendish Argies! > >erm... sorry, don't know what came over me there... > >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") - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 10:54:46 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: DYLAN COVERS means hendrix covers I've heard a bootleg demo of the Stones doing Hiway Chile. Instrumentally terrible, but Jagger's voice sounds pretty good for the song. My favorite is the Chronos Quartet doing Purple Haze -- once they get into the song proper it goes downhill a bit, but the two note intro is awsome, it sounds like a huge Soviet orchestra. Ross Taylor "shoot her one more time for me now" "in the mean time it's just a groovey time" "just float your little mind around" etc. Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 17:07:06 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: DYLAN COVERS means hendrix covers On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, ross taylor wrote: > My favorite is the Chronos Quartet doing Purple > Haze -- once they get into the song proper it > goes downhill a bit, but the two note intro > is awsome, it sounds like a huge Soviet > orchestra. Oh yes, I once heard Nigel Kennedy play Hendrix in the pouring rain in Victoria Park - I think it was the same song, but it could have been Foxy Lady or Wild Thing. The nice thing about it was the way he got the fiddle to play 'feedback' effects - other than that it was a bit pointless. Has anyone got the record where he does this? The other acts on were poor old Kirsty McColl and Boy George doing an acoustic set. Everyone got drenched - classic UK summer gig... - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 11:24:45 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Dylan covers There's even a question here? "Absolutely Sweet Marie" by Jason & the Scorchers, one of those covers that's so great that the covering band just *owns* (not literally, ya goofs!) the song. No disrespect to the outstanding original, but this'll take your head clear off. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 11:31:28 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: CD9, CD9 At 11:16 AM 6/7/2002 -0500, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: >But what is a "CD9"? (rogue shift key, methinks...) I'm thinking HTML-ized apostrophe (where the bottom of the ' leans to the left) turned into a "9" by demime. Note not only "CD9s" but "we9re." overnight sensation, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 17:33:48 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Where? Downtown. When? Last night. On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Miles Goosens wrote: > There's even a question here? "Absolutely Sweet Marie" by Jason & the > Scorchers, one of those covers that's so great that the covering band just > *owns* (not literally, ya goofs!) the song. No disrespect to the > outstanding original, but this'll take your head clear off. That's a good one! And have you heard the Blues Band's anti-Thatcher version of "Maggie's Farm"? - - MRG PS The title I failed to remember was 'Clothes Line Saga'. Lyrics at http://hem.passagen.se/obrecht/backpages/chords/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 09:35:06 -0700 From: "Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" Subject: RE: Sam & Bob - -----Original Message----- jenor@csd.uwm.edu wrote: > But a baseball equivalent of the World Cup - say, the winners of the North > American World Series, Japan's champions (and what about Latin America - - > lots of baseball-mad folks down there) - would be interesting. What I'd really like to see is a really world cup taking place somewhere warm in like November. I'd want to see national teams made up of players from Major League Baseball and from other international leagues. It would be great to see Pedro Martinez play for the Domincan republic, Ichiro and Ishii for Japan, Kim for Korea, Larry Walker for Canada, etc. and Plus you'd get see how the Cubans measure up against the true best of the rest of the world (although probably not that well considering how the get their asses beat at the Olympics by a US team made up of Minor Leaguers and College kids). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 15:14:22 -0400 From: "*twofangs.rand*" Subject: a tale of robynware Okay - call me crazy - it's been done before ... ;-} .................................................................. Once upon a time, in a land far away, a girl named Randi believed she had a font called 'donovar' ... or at least a font that started with a 'd' ... on her computer. She also believed she got it from a talented wizard named 'John Hedges'. So many thoughts whirled around in her head that she could hardly express them in writing ... but she needed to describe the fonts to a 'tribe of fegs' that she believed might posses the magickal answer for her question. Young Randi though there was a font that had Magician Robyn Hitchcock's writing in both 'CAPITAL LETTERS' and in 'a lower case font that was not the same as the fegcaps' The letters were more script-like than the feg-caps font. The girl named Randi awaits any talk of memories of this font ... she is very sad to have lost it. .................................................................. ... am I crazy ... am I dreamin' ...? (btvs musical) fading back into yesterday before tomorrow comes, Randi Toronto, Ontario, Canada *what scares you most will set you free* ~ Robyn Hitchcock *the longer you hide ... the more you deny* ~ Neil Finn *by endurance we conquer* ~ Sir Ernest Shackleton ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 14:39:20 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: "out, demons! out!" At 01:38 AM 6/7/2002 -0500, steve wrote: >Cuban fessed up on his TV show a while back, and I don't *think* it was >April 1. He said he wrote it under a pseudonym, and Amazon shows it as >being by Sembello and Dennis Matkosky. I don't remember him saying he >cowrote it, so maybe unknown songwriter gives up partial credit in >order to sell his work? I tried to Google out the truth (or at least a story about this), but got zero hits for "Mark Cuban" + Sembello. "Mark Cuban" + maniac turns up a ton of hits, but none of them about the song. :-) >Cuban's mother is a piano teacher, and he was into music before starting >his computer service company and broadcast.com. His brother said that >he was pretty sure that he had heard Mark singing other songs around the >house well before they became Top 40 hits, although he wouldn't comment >on anything other than Maniac. > >Elaborate hoax or true story. Which would be more bizarre in >MarkCubanworld? Delusions of grandeur? later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 18:04:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: quiet day Doesn't the Argentine player Lopez look like a young Robyn? And Beckham with his Fran Healy 'do', that was a bullet of a penalty shot. At least that game was on at a reasonable hour (7:30 a.m.) here in Boston. Did anyone in England go to work today? Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:34:25 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Paging Brian Nupp If the LazerLove one is onlist, pls email me - the addy I have for you is bouncing. Michael "the witpicker" Wells ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #185 ********************************