From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #277 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, September 6 2002 Volume 11 : Number 277 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: mac attack [Stewart Russell ] soft boys warm-up gig [guapo stick ] Ghost ship about to set sail... ["Rex.Broome" ] James, I guess holiday well-wishes are in order... [bayard ] The wisdom of Chairman Jean [Stewart Russell ] Re: Andy Metcalfe/Telephone Bill ["Jonathan Fetter" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:49:22 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: mac attack glen uber wrote: > > all the other mac.com "improvements" really are not a selling point for me. I guess they're in the same league as the bigfoot.com "improvements", which include charging former Premium members' credit cards without asking ... fkrz. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 13:49:25 -0700 From: guapo stick Subject: soft boys warm-up gig according to the news page at underwatermoonlight.com, a warm-up gig has been added. october 16th at the railway in winchester: The Railway Inn St Paul's Hill Winchester Wednesday, 16th October, 8.30 pm Support: Mark Andrews Tickets #7.50 Call 01962-714520 First come, first served. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:12:16 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Ghost ship about to set sail... Oh, it's mad. We're cobbling together some really wild footage to go with the tunes. In addition to all shipwreck movies, we got Blue Planet on DVD... the episode "The Deep" alone is a feg's wet dream, in every sense of the term. Scary death-fish and pulsating jelly chimeras... how about a shrimp that farts glowing depth charges? Oh yeah. So can anyone give me a line on the following missing pieces of the puzzle... not to say that I would accept mp3's of them or anything, but... Another Ghost Ship, Hoodoo Gurus Death Ship, Hoodoo Gurus Ghost Ships, The Saints Shipwreck, The Saints Haunted Beach Party, The Pandora She-Devils from the Deep, Future Bible Heroes Lots of other tunes suggested by you knowledgable folks made the list... I'll post the final sequence when we're all done, closer to Halloween... Thanks, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:26:07 -0700 From: drew Subject: gene @ bimbo's last night >From: "Daniel L. Cotten" > >I didn't know that anyone actually liked Unbreakable. I thought it >was Unbearable. A lot of people did. I was one of them (though I wouldn't say I "loved" it). To the subject at hand: I went to see Gene at Bimbo's in SF last night (almost typed "I went to see Bimbos," which would have been inaccurate, happily). For those of you who don't know, Gene are basically the Smiths, but with the edges filed off and the sense of humor surgically extracted. They do have some terrific songs that rock in a bit of an adult-contempo way, burdened by often-ridiculously melancholy lyrics. I really, really like the guitarist. What he plays is, as I say, kind of easy-listening, but it's all twisty and turny and delicious nonetheless. I suppose the bass and drums are fine too but I know less about those instruments. Then there's Martin Rossiter, the lead singer. I imagine people who hate the Smiths feel about Morrissey the way I do about Rossiter...except that I do think he has a lovely voice, on record. Live, he's a real pill -- either he can't sing over the band, or the monitors aren't loud enough, but either way he has trouble with pitch and his phrasing is too "spontaneous" to be listenable half the time. Still, when he actually looks like he means what he's singing, it's fine, or better than fine. The problem is that he desperately, fervently, passionately wants to be Morrissey, and so he postures and screws up his face and tries his little hardest to be a Big Rock Star so that The Kids will want to grab his crotch. And he's a prima donna...he told a roomful of screaming fans to shut up a couple of times in the mistaken belief that it would be charming, and he did 13 songs, then a single song for an encore, and then he glared at the crowd as if warning them that if they didn't make even more noise...and they didn't, so the encores stopped there. Good songs, annoying singer. If you want the set list check my journal (http://octopus.livejournal.com/) tomorrow, though I'll tell you right now that 9 of 14 songs were from the first two albums. >From: glen uber >On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 06:41 AM, Caroline Smith wrote: > > > what the rest of you are planning on doing about the new cost for the > > mac.com e-mail accounts? Are you paying or are you dropping it? > >My wife and I are both dropping ours, unfortunately. So am I. Negligible value for the cost. This is also what I think of 10.2 at the moment, for which $129 seems outrageous. Also my eMac is in the shop AGAIN for the SAME problem, so I am not Apple's biggest fan at the moment. Sorry Tom. - - Drew ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:47:18 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: James, I guess holiday well-wishes are in order... Sorry I'm so late, the 5th is almost over... http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=23967&c=w - -- http://glasshotel.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 08:58:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Topes! (99% Simpsons, 1% Baseball) I'd buy a shirt... http://sportserver.com/baseball/other/v-archive/story/429606p- 3436072c.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:08:18 -0400 From: Brian Subject: Andy Metcalfe/Telephone Bill So I obtained a copy of the Telephone Bill & the Smooth Operators cd "Final Reminder," on the label Kissing Spell. It's a comp of the 3 records they released from 1979 to 1982. Andy Metcalfe plays on almost every song. Being a Cambridge band from the 70's there are numberous links to Robyn Hitchcock. The Soft Boys even get a mention in the liner notes. Here are some of the people on the disc that have also appeared on RH releases: 1. Andy Metcalfe: No bass. Mostly keyboards. Lead vocal on one track, backing on a few others and accordian. Production credits as well. 2. Morris Windor: Plays drums on 1 track. 3. Chris Cox: This is interesting. He's always been somewhat of a mystery man in RH's recordings to me, but here he is a principle song writer (10 of the 16 tracks). Some of the songs he wrote he doesn't perform on. He also sings, plays bass and guitar. 4. Gerry Hale: Song writing, vocals, mandolin, fiddle, and guitar. 5. Robb Appleton: He doesn't appear on the cd, but he does have song writing credits and was apparently a past member of the band. So what's the music like? Hmmm. Very soft. Bluegrassy. Loungey. Lots of elaborate harmonies using both male and female vocals. Some of the stuff reminds me of the 'Live at the Portland Arms' LP. Kinda doo-woppy arrangements. It's mostly very acoustic. Not a cd I'll likely listen to that often, but a good find. - -Nuppy PS: My co-workers just paid me $100 to eat a dead Cicada Killer Wasp. Chumps! here's what one looks like: http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/misc/ef004ci2.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:15:34 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: The wisdom of Chairman Jean "A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." -- Jean Chr\'etien, quoted here: http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/09/05/iraq_pm020905 Brian: how much would your coworkers pay you to try SASKATCHEWAN WHEAT? (http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/09/05/grasshopper0905) Stewart (who's sure some record company will try to sign the cargo container that's taking Lance Bass's place on the ISS.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 17:19:55 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Andy Metcalfe/Telephone Bill - --On Friday, September 06, 2002 10:08:18 -0400 Brian wrote: > PS: My co-workers just paid me $100 to eat a dead Cicada Killer Wasp. > Chumps! > > here's what one looks like: > http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/misc/ef004ci2.htm What about the sting?? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ Being just contaminates the void - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:38:49 -0400 From: Brian Subject: Re: Andy Metcalfe/Telephone Bill >> PS: My co-workers just paid me $100 to eat a dead Cicada Killer Wasp. >> Chumps! >> >> here's what one looks like: >> http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/misc/ef004ci2.htm > >What about the sting?? >-- >Sebastian Hagedorn Ouch! Part of the deal was to remove the stinger/poison. Yeah, no way I would've eaten it with that still attached! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:51:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: Andy Metcalfe/Telephone Bill Dead=no sting. No Sting=happy absence of pointless wuss-rock. If only my coworkers were so dumb/rich. Jon (will eat insects for money) > --On Friday, September 06, 2002 10:08:18 -0400 Brian > wrote: > > > PS: My co-workers just paid me $100 to eat a dead Cicada Killer Wasp. > > Chumps! > > > > here's what one looks like: > > http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/misc/ef004ci2.htm > > What about the sting?? > -- > Sebastian Hagedorn > Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 > 50823 Kvln > http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ > > Being just contaminates the void - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #277 ********************************