From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #279 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, September 8 2002 Volume 11 : Number 279 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Techie Alert -- Laptops ["Golden Hind" ] Nextdoorland ["Sean Palmerston" ] Re: Nextdoorland [Steve Talkowski ] Re: James, I guess holiday well-wishes are in order... [bayard ] Ain't No Lie... Duets with Ted Nugent and the Basstronaut [Mike Swedene <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 20:25:18 +0000 From: "Golden Hind" Subject: Techie Alert -- Laptops Im throwing myself on your tech mercy -- again. Our car died a bit ago, and we got an expensive used car. To pay for it we're refinancing our mortgage(which luckily is only on a portian of the house, otherwise Id -really- be freaking.) My husband is, to my tightwad eyes, spending money right and left and at this point I figure if its going to get spent -- I might as well do some of the spending too. I would love a laptop. Something I could keep Word files on that perhaps could also play music. Id want it to be easily compatable with our home PC. Also, even when I indulge in reckless spending, I dont want it to be too reckless. I want good value, second hand would be fine but Im not sure how to evaluate my options. Is there a good site for reliable second hand laptops? My husband says new ones are pretty cheap, but the prices still make me shiver. Are they worth it? What model do I want? If I got internet access on it -- is dial-up what one still uses? In short I know next to nothing. And less. So thank you in advance for all the good advice list-history has taught me I may well be lucky enough to receive. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 18:21:17 -0400 From: "Sean Palmerston" Subject: Nextdoorland I've had the new Soft Boys 'Nextdoorland' for a bout a week now and really love it. I wasn't sure I would, but I think it's great. Anyone else have thoughts on it yet? Sean Palmeston ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 21:19:06 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Nextdoorland On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 06:21 PM, Sean Palmerston wrote: > I've had the new Soft Boys 'Nextdoorland' for a bout a week now and > really > love it. I wasn't sure I would, but I think it's great. Anyone else > have > thoughts on it yet? No thoughts since it hasn't been released yet. (September 24th, correct?) Lucky you. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 20:35:34 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: Re: James, I guess holiday well-wishes are in order... On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, James Dignan wrote: > >Sorry I'm so late, the 5th is almost over... > > > >http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=23967&c=w > > yes, well. The question is, what sort of websearch did you do to find this item? www.fark.com - all the news you can lose (thanks, ferris! very amusing site.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 03:30:24 -0400 From: "R. Edward Poole" Subject: Re: Nextdoorland On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 06:21 PM, Sean Palmerston wrote: > I've had the new Soft Boys 'Nextdoorland' for a bout a week now and > really > love it. I wasn't sure I would, but I think it's great. Anyone else > have > thoughts on it yet? I got it today, and I've listened to it 4 times, and I'm feeling very positive at this point. The familiar songs from the last tour -- 'mind is connected,' 'mr. kennedy,' 'pulse of your heart,' and 'sudden town' - -- sound like they did live, more or less. I'm not too keen on 'pulse,' and on disc it's even more poppy sounding, to my ears. 'kennedy' and 'sudden town,' however, sound rich and great -- lots of good interplay between robyn & kim. my favorites are 'i love lucy' -- a ripping, riffing, essentially-instrumental track (shades of 'sideways' in starting out the album, but quite different) -- and 'strings,' which is the most can-of-beesish thing on the disc. (These two are also the only tunes credited as Hitchcock (lyrics)/Hitchcock-Rew-Windsor-Seligman (music) - -- which is, perhaps, somewhat telling). 'Strings' is also the most 'out there' track, musically and lyrically: Mother is coming, she wants to be friends/ So the poison can get in you, she's got a map of you/ She knows the pressure points I wish I was just paranoid I wish I was just paranoid I wish I was just paranoid 'unprotected love' is a great rocker, too. plus, if you were worried that fish would fail to appear, this tune should put your fears to rest: Nobody wants to be vulnerable, Everyone wants to be horrible/ Just like that pig in the underpass, Sharing a troth with the antichrist/ You are so Hard, you are so hard/ Give me unprotected love/ Like a baby in a football/ Like a fish inside a glove/ Give me unprotected love/ (oh yeah) -- [instrumental break] Give me unprotected love/ Like a salmon high above/ Give me unprotected love/ You are as hard as a diamond! the only track I don't like ('pulse' is fine, just not great) is 'la cherite' -- it's kinda languid and repetitive. all in all, it sounds like the soft boys, which is enough to make me smile quite a bit. I understand robyn's description of it being kind of a cross between UM & CoB -- but, really, IH already was that, more or less. Still, it doesn't really sound like any of them, which may be the best news, if you want to hear a living, breathing creative force, rather than a nostalgia trip. - -ed 'I wasn't gonna rub it in your faces, honest, but he asked' poole ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 19:18:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Ain't No Lie... Duets with Ted Nugent and the Basstronaut Slow times are in the news, but this was too amusing to pass up. Mr Ted Nugent is offering a hand and a life experience to Lance the "Bass"tronaut to learn a valuable lesson on life: http://www.msnbc.com/news/750150.asp#0209044 Herbie np -> "My Wife & My Dead Wife" Robyn LIVE DEATH album ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! 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