From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #298 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, September 23 2002 Volume 11 : Number 298 Today's Subjects: ----------------- sharpening the scythe ... [Stewart Russell ] Re: filing myself [Stewart Russell ] Re: Capaldiana [Michael R Godwin ] ??!Ne! Husker du Guilfoerd?? ["Golden Hind" ] Re: Capaldiana [Stewart Russell ] Re: Capaldiana [Michael R Godwin ] Robyn tunings help [Imanol Ugarte ] world beat ["Kenneth Johnson" ] robyn in flip-flops [drew ] put away the scythe ... ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Husker Du and How It Got There ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: put away the scythe ... [gSs ] Re: feelm [Eb ] Re: Also being released on the 24th. ["*FS Thomas*" ] Re: feelm [Stewart Russell ] I kept hoping they'd play "Victorian Squid" ["Golden Hind" ] Re:I kept hoping they'd play Victorian Squid ["Golden Hind" ] Nextdoorland vinyl ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Feggy tv alert [Michael R Godwin ] Wilt thou also rock me, Jebediah? [shmac@ix.netcom.com (Scott Hunter McCl] Re: Robyn tunings help [rosso@videotron.ca] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:34:01 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: sharpening the scythe ... Jason Mewes (missing for 10 months) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:45:31 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: filing myself Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > >>but aren't album titles italicized or underlined, rather than in >>quotes? > > Yes - unless you're _USA Today_, who mysteriously reverses the convention > and italicizes song titles while putting album titles in quotes. Bizarre. hey, it's just house style. They can do what they want, as long as they are consistent. I saw the fnords in style manuals when I looked at a fairly recent MLA guidebook which advised you to "use a new ribbon in your typewriter". Bet they still like underlining; urk! Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:12:28 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Capaldiana On the Capaldi issue, I don't think Peter and Jim can be closely related, as Peter is obviously Scottish and AFAIK Jim comes from Birmingham. There is a substantial Italian community in and around Glasgow (? is that locale accurate, Stewart?) including, I should think, Sharleen Spiteri and probably a number of other well-known faces. It is possible that Jim is a relation who moved south of the border. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:33:30 +0000 From: "Golden Hind" Subject: ??!Ne! Husker du Guilfoerd?? Herbie, thank you so much for the Bloodhag info. It made my morning. - ------------- So how do you say "I dont remember Guildford" in Danish? Kay _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:34:07 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Capaldiana Michael R Godwin wrote: > > There is a substantial Italian community in and around Glasgow > (? is that locale accurate, Stewart?) Yep. Seems like a ship carrying Neapolitan emigrants to NY had serious troubles off the Scottish coast early in the 20th C, and managed to limp into Port Glasgow. The locals made the stranded immigrants welcome, so they stayed -- and used the catering equipment they were shipping to start cafes and ice cream parlours. After the Glasgow Italians made good, friends and relatives came over to help out. Alternatively, there's the less charitable story of unscrupulous shipping people dumping Italians in Glasgow, and them being none the wiser. After all, it's a city far away where they didn't speak Italian ... Either way, the Glasgow Italian ("Tally") community is thriving. Some are down the Clyde coast; Nardini's in Largs are famous for their art-deco cafe (long before Daniella came on the scene), and the Zavaronis are still in Rothesay, even if Lena has passed on. It is rumoured that some of the ice cream families make Tony Soprano look like a choirboy. I have no specific comment to make at this time, except watch "Comfort & Joy". The Capaldis still make ice cream, and run a dairy in Glasgow (or is it Paisley?). Glasgow has wonderful ice cream; Crolla's (wasn't there a semi-famous Crolla?), Ghiloni's, Colpi's. Wish I knew the name of the folks who run The University Cafe on Byres Road; their ice cream is so good I've bought a cone in mid-January, and happily eaten it in the sleet. Similarly with the Queen's Cafe on Victoria road, who do the alarmingly good hot muffin with ice cream combo. Glasgow Italian is a wonderful accent, but heard less and less. Go to the Unique Cafe in Govanhill for roast chicken, and you'll hear the brothers speak it. And you will want chips with that. Will that do, Mike? ;-) Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:46:59 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Capaldiana On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Stewart Russell wrote: [snipped: extensive Italo-Glaswegian catering location data] > Will that do, Mike? ;-) At'sa fine, boss! - - Emanuel Ravelli ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:46:57 +0200 From: Imanol Ugarte Subject: Robyn tunings help Hi all, As a Robyn fan and guitar player too, I use to play -mostly at home- many of his songs trying to sound as "loyal" to his picking style as I can. It doesn't work often though :-( Anyway, I am very happy with some "rare" tunings I've found, they work perfectly on several songs, for instance: FADGCE (Heliotrope), or EA#DGBE (Raymond Chandler Evening)... I'd like to know more about Glass Hotel, Each of Her Siver Wands,Never Stop Bleeding,and others. Is there any guitarist with some "secret" tabs and tuning information out there? Thanks in advance Imanol PS: There's an excellent site about Nick Drake's tabs ,including tunings at http://www.algonet.se/~iguana/DRAKE ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:26:51 -0700 From: "Kenneth Johnson" Subject: world beat I was referring to actual ethnic, folk music from around the world, Koto, flute, Sitar, bagpipes, African drum ensembles, etc. With a few exceptions there is no new age dreck to speck of(Zap Mama??). Where else would you sort ethnic, folk music? I use a generic term "world music" (which obviously has negative connotations) and it goes right next to the European or Western style orchestral music. So the whole section could be considered "world". Only a large, well stocked record store (Tower comes to mind) has the luxery of subdividing all the "world" and orchestral music (one of my minor pet peeves is the "classical" moniker). It only gets one big gloppy label within my personal CD collection because I have so few and there's no way I am sorting it with rock/pop. Now Taj Mahal's "world music" albums are with his folk blues in rock/pop. It's just easier that way. >From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey >Reply-To: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey >To: "It's Not Just the Size of a Walnut" >Subject: Re: Buying Nextdoorland >Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:08:21 -0500 (CDT) > >On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Kenneth Johnson wrote: > > > happy if they are just alphabetical. I do keep rock and pop separate > > from jazz, orchestral, world and spoken word. Even various artists are > > sorted at the end, including soundtracks. My books are separated into > > fiction and non with the latter further subdivided into subjects like > > philosophy,history,biography,language arts,criticism, etc. > >See, the reason I don't do that (and I have enough trouble deciding what >counts as "classical": see my earlier post) is that then I'd have to >decide what genre something is. Is Michel Foucault's _Discipline and >Punish_ philosophy, history, criticism, or what? > >And there's no such thing as "world music" as a genre - unless it's bland >jazz fusion with a couple of "exotic" flutes and percussion to make you >think somebody from Senegal or somewhere was involved at some point - >probably right before fourteen layers of synths were attached. Sorry - >the reduction of a huge and diverse body of music from several hundred >nations and peoples into one, big, gloppy label just gets my goat. And the >lame, pseudo-ethnic stuff produced intentionally under the label "world >beat" is what that goat leaves behind. > >Uh-oh, I'm ranting again. > >--Jeff > >J e f f r e y N o r m a n >The Architectural Dance Society >www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html >::part of your circuit of incompetence:: Kenneth ************************************ "And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it by too much contact with the world, by too much activity and talk. Try not to degrade it by dragging it along, taking it around and exposing it so often to the daily silliness of social events and parties, until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on" - --C.P. Cavafy (translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard) ************************************* _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:33:50 -0700 From: drew Subject: robyn in flip-flops >From: "Mandarin Red" > >so, i was wondering: does anyone else have Robyn songs on which their >feelings have flip-flopped at some point? if so, what caused it? if your >feelings have gone from like to dislike, that would be interesting too, >especially as to what caused it. Let's see. "The Yip Song" moved from like to dislike. I got sick to death of hearing it. Plus it's murder to sing. "Globe of Frogs": I was kind of lukewarm on this song until I heard the "electric version," believe it or not. "52 Stations" and "St. Petersburg" had to grow on me. At first they just drifted by under the radar. Always liked the lyrics of "The President" but not the music. Only recently I've begun to crave it at odd moments. I'm surprised that these are pretty much the only ones I can think of. With almost all the other songs my feelings have drifted slightly but only become stronger or weaker. - - Drew ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:49:26 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: put away the scythe ... At 08:34 AM 9/23/2002 -0400, Stewart Russell wrote: >Jason Mewes > >(missing for 10 months) I did a quick websearch, and it looks like he's scheduled to host a talent show at Marshall University on Oct 17: http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2002/September/18/LNlist8.htm http://www.marshall.edu/alumni/Homecoming2002.asp I can't believe they'd plan something like that if he hadn't been around the last 10 months. - --Jason np: Peter Gabriel, "Up" "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:26:03 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Husker Du and How It Got There Brian Huddell: >>Yeah, the problem with this particular geekercize is that you reveal the >>gaps in your collection! Problem? That's half if not all of the fun. Jeffrey FF: >>Then classical, which is filed (bring out the geek crown) alphabetically >>by *label* and within label by *catalog number*. The crown is yours. >>But hey - some of us knew some folks who, for a time, had their CDs filed >>by the color of the CDs' spines Now we're getting into "High Fidelity" territory. If we haven't been there for a while. _____________ Ken: >>It's Danish and Norwegian for "Do you remember". It is/was a board >>me. I have it. :) Head Counsel of Hasbro Toys sent it to me in >>anks of making him a Bob Mould/Sugar/Husker Du tape. Cool story... was he a fan or just curious? Now, how the Huskers chose their name is really interesting. In an early rehearshal they were doing a goof cover of "Psycho Killer" and replacing the "Qu'est-que c'est" with any silly foreign phrase they could think of. For some reason "husker du" really caught their fancy in this process and stuck as the band name. The fact that its meaning seems so appropriate for their lyrical concerns is just gravy. But I sure would like to hear that cover! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:22:54 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: put away the scythe ... Jason R. Thornton wrote: > > I did a quick websearch, and it looks like he's scheduled to host a > talent show at Marshall University on Oct 17: I guess he'll have to deal with the parole violation and $50K bench warrant first, though: http://www.suntimes.com/output/zwecker/cst-ftr-zp19.html Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:32:42 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: xlibris (0% rh) a while back there was some discussion of people wishing to self-publish via Xlibris. Did anyone go ahead with that? I've just heard from someone who has pulled their book from Xlibris as they couldn't afford the constant promotion costs. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:52:02 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: put away the scythe ... On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Stewart Russell wrote: > http://www.suntimes.com/output/zwecker/cst-ftr-zp19.html so he violated probation while on parole, in the same state? isn't just being on parole or probation a violation of the other? how the hell did he pull that off in the first place. money smells. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:59:14 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: feelm >Tonight on the TCM channel: >"The Bed Sitting Room," a 1969 Richard Lester film with Dudley Moore >and Peter Cook. Wondered if I would ever get a chance to see this, >until now! Wow. It wasn't animated or based on a comic book (I suppose you could stretch and call it "science fiction"), but if there's a more Robyn-esque film than "The Bed Sitting Room," I can't imagine what it is. Well, besides "Storefront Hitchcock," anyway. Imagine a surreal, post-nuclear world where people are mutating into parrots, furniture and the titular "bed sitting room." A man walking around, festooned with countless rearview mirrors...giant piles of shoes and dentures...priests emerging from lakes...on and on. Plus the input of droll Brits like Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Marty Feldman (film debut) and two Goons. It was actually a pretty lousy film, but I'm sure glad that I saw it. Have you seen this, Godwin? Incidentally, I finally saw Fegfilm "Ghost World" about a month ago, and felt pretty baffled by its great reviews (beyond the obviously fine performances by Birch and Buscemi). Talk about a muddled message. Easily the best film I've seen recently: "Hi, Mom!" Hilariously warped, and some deceptively substantial observations on black vs. white relations besides. Plus, Brian DePalma, Robert De Niro, Gerrit Graham (showing the Full Monty) and Allen Garfield, very early in their careers. Eb now cheering: "24"'s writing Emmy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:01:36 -0400 From: "*FS Thomas*" Subject: Re: Also being released on the 24th. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maximilian Lang" > > Peter Gabriel's new CD. I just got back from Asheville, NC (via Atlanta and briefly Tennessee) and they premiered the disc on the in-flight radio program. First impression: there's no hooks via So, but some *very* Gabriel tracks. I'll probably be picking it up with the new SB's rekkid tomorrow. - -ferris. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:17:36 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Husker Du and How It Got There On Mon, Sep 23, 2002, Rex.Broome wrote: > Ken: > >>It's Danish and Norwegian for "Do you remember". It is/was a board > >>me. I have it. :) Head Counsel of Hasbro Toys sent it to me in > >>anks of making him a Bob Mould/Sugar/Husker Du tape. > > Cool story... was he a fan or just curious? Well in the mid-'90s I was working at the ISP where Hasbro hosted their web site. They ended up registering a domain name for every one of their games. When we did huskerdu.com, I mentioned to John (he was handling a lot of that stuff) that I wanted it because Husker Du. We talked a bit about it because he plays guitar, and one thing led to another and I made him a take of that stuff. A while later a package with the Husker Du game came in the mail. Funny story: when they went to register candyland.com, they found it was already taken as a porn site. In I think the first major court case involving things such as domain names, Hasbro won the domain name back. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:30:39 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: feelm Eb wrote: > > Imagine a surreal, > post-nuclear world where people are mutating into parrots, furniture and > the titular "bed sitting room." gangs of commuters, roving the underground, living off the chocolate machines (Arthur Lowe) ... Rita Tushingham giving birth to a monster ... The one-man BBC, wandering around delivering the news. > Marty Feldman (film debut) but he'd been an old hand at TV and radio before then. My dad used to sit behind Took & Feldman at the taping of "Round The Horne"; he worked with Kenneth Williams's sister. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:31:55 +0000 From: "Golden Hind" Subject: I kept hoping they'd play "Victorian Squid" Last weekend my rock budged enough to allow me out for a jaunt. Dragged my protesting mate with me to see "Possession" in a theater where the entire audience consisted of 7 woman(5 of whom, I swear, already had their hankies out) and Mike, who harruphed mightily and kept muttering things like "you really -owe- me for this one." Cut to end of movie. 6 woman delicately daubbing their eyes and unprepared me sniffeling and blinking. My husband turns to me -- "I really enjoyed that." Now, Im not saying it was a great movie, but it sure was an interesting one. Not only did it have passionate Victorian poets of substantial personal character wandering around against wonderous backdrops in delicious clothes, it also had well-fuckedup modern dips blundering thru the present terrain in trendy rags and finially, gratifyingly, getting a clue. I really enjoyed it. Kay _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:46:29 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: I kept hoping they'd play "Victorian Squid" - -- Golden Hind is rumored to have mumbled on Montag, 23. September 2002 18:31 Uhr +0000 regarding I kept hoping they'd play "Victorian Squid": > Last weekend my rock budged enough to allow me out for a jaunt. Dragged > my protesting mate with me to see "Possession" in a theater where the > entire audience consisted of 7 woman(5 of whom, I swear, already had > their hankies out) and Mike, who harruphed mightily and kept muttering > things like "you really -owe- me for this one." > > Cut to end of movie. 6 woman delicately daubbing their eyes and > unprepared me sniffeling and blinking. My husband turns to me -- "I > really enjoyed that." > > Now, Im not saying it was a great movie, but it sure was an interesting > one. Not only did it have passionate Victorian poets of substantial > personal character wandering around against wonderous backdrops in > delicious clothes, it also had well-fuckedup modern dips blundering thru > the present terrain in trendy rags and finially, gratifyingly, getting a > clue. I'm curious but doubtful about that one. I read the book last year and have trepidations about the Hollwood treatment. Anyway, while I enjoyed reading it (it is usually said to be A.S. Byatt's best one and she won the Booker prize for it) I much prefered "Babel Tower". I was moved by the romance in "Possession" to some degree, but "Babel Tower" touched me in different ways. I guess we're back to my "naive" way of empathizing with protagonists ... ;-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:00:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: sharpening the scythe ... On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Stewart Russell wrote: > Jason Mewes > > (missing for 10 months) Or not -- he was in Malibu at a Film Festival on 9/1: http://www.rsvpthemovie.com/malibu2.htm The original news article that seems to have started this rumor just said that his friends didn't know where he was and thought he was "dead or on the lam in a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US". In other words, some of his old friends haven't heard from him in a while but they've spent a lot of time taking drugs and making shit up. a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:28:41 +0000 From: "Golden Hind" Subject: Re:I kept hoping they'd play Victorian Squid Sebastian, I have never read Byatt, so thank you for the recs. The movie certianly made me want to read her. I did mention the clothes, right? I now want all men to wear Victorian poetwear at least half the time. And Id love those long flurries of dresses for woman, as long as they didn't involve anything uncomfortable or confining. Hmmm, so maybe on second thought woman should go for drag Victorian poetswear too. Or a fetching combo of the two;-) So--why is "Babel Tower" better the "Possession" and, if anyone else has read Byatt, what do they think? And BTW--a co-worker just recced "Spirited Away" to me. Kay _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:31:18 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: sharpening the scythe ... Aaron Mandel wrote: > > Or not -- he was in Malibu at a Film Festival on 9/1 Hmm. Maybe I'll have to plead the web. > In other words, some of his old friends haven't heard from him in a while > but they've spent a lot of time taking drugs and making shit up. sounds like there's been a major falling out with Kevin Smith, at any rate. But then, it could of course be all an intricate plan hatched between them ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:44:23 -0400 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: ye ol' update i've been lurking off and on for some time now. things have been pretty hectic around here. amy & i got married two months ago tomorrow. it was the most romantic fairy tale shotgun wedding ever. it was broadcast on allston brighton free radio. we even got written up in the abtab: http://www.townonline.com/allston/arts_lifestyle/arts_lifestyle/ab_radiomarriage09052002.htm since then we had some sadness. we lost the baby. amy had been having difficulty with sciatica since day one and had been bed ridden for months. she organized a lot of the wedding from her bed, as well as our radio show on allston brighton free radio. the fact is that we weren't ready. apparently one out of four pregnancies end in what they call 'spontaneous abortion'. typically, it's because something is wrong. still, we are doing fine with the emotions involved in such a disappointment. during the short time that peanut was with us, our lives were changed. it is a welcome change. now we have a chance to be a couple before we try again to be a triple. the honeymoon continues... saw my first live show in months this past week. it was the mekons 25th anniversary show. i love those guys. i even got the wife to come. >>So, what would be the geekiest thread? (erk. probably that one, if it started). > >Well, for one, any thread about how you alphabetize/store your music collection pretty much pins the needle.... i have been doing just that lately, having just moved into a new lovenest with my new bride. albums are done in strict alpha order while cd's merely have the same letter grouped together, at least for now. have to remember to wear gloves so i can avoid getting that nasty film on my fingers again. sorting by letter, the s's had the largest number of cd's and records. >>if you made a solo album and filed it with your >>own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it >>(alphabetically)? that depends on whether i use my given name ken ostrander (only ones & over the rhine) or my new radio alias jesus presley (elvis & pretenders) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=638&ncid=762&e=4&u=/nm/20020921/en_nm/television_candidate_dc has anyone seen this? i'm a bit skeptical that the exec's will let this happen; but it could prove to be an unprecidented experiment in democracy. i wonder who will get to pick the one hundred potential candidates from the pool of applicants and what their criteria will be. i guess i envision a cross between survivor and politically incorrect. i don't think that i have to apologize; but i didn't see fit (or have time) to chime in on the inevitable iraq thread. if anyone wants to hear me rant about it check out the archives of my show from sunday afternoon: http://www.abfreeradio.org/archives.html it's on the sun-14 segment. ken "gossip is as good as gospel in this town" the kenster np lifted or the story is in the soil so keep your ear to the ground bright eyes ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:08:13 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Nextdoorland vinyl My local record store (Stinkweed's, Tempe AZ) got the vinyl in today. I hadn't caught what the bonus 45 tracks were before, so I was pleased to see that it was "Only the Stones Remain" and "Underwater Moonlight" from the Knitting Factory in Hollywood (a very good show). No time to listen to them at this moment, I just needed to get the vinyl out of the car (it's 104 F today). Can't wait for tonight. Later, Marc There should be a detective show called "Johnny Monkey," because every week you could have a guy say "I ain't gonna get caught by no MONKEY," but then he would, and I don't think I'd ever get tired of that. Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:24:19 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Feggy tv alert On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Eb wrote: > Tonight on the TCM channel: > "The Bed Sitting Room," a 1969 Richard Lester film with Dudley Moore > and Peter Cook. Wondered if I would ever get a chance to see this, > until now! It's an extremely bizarre post-atomic thing by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus (IIRC) in which the bomb goes off and various strange consequences ensue, including (again IIRC) one of the characters turning into the eponymous bedsitter. I wouldn't get your hopes up too high, but if you can get into maximum Ionesco / N F Simpson mode before it starts you might enjoy it. At least the original stage production at the Mermaid Theatre had a few music-hall type laughs ... - - MRG PS At any rate it's funnier than Viv Stanshall's disastrous film of Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End, which is the closest comparison I can come up with. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:53:34 -0400 From: shmac@ix.netcom.com (Scott Hunter McCleary) Subject: Wilt thou also rock me, Jebediah? My copy of Nextdoorland arrived today -- and is spectacular as I expected. The wrapper had a black ovaloid label with the following in green: "First new studio album in over 20 years! Featuring thee [sic] classic Soft Boys line-up of Robyn Hitchcock, Kimberley Rew, Matthew Seligman and Morris Windsor." Obviously an attempt to crack the Amish market. Scott (who would be filed between Baaba Maal and Brad Mehldau). And speaking of Mehldau -- I've been digging his most recent work -- Largo (produced oddly enough by Jon Brion) for about a week. The collaboration with Brion completes the link between OUR Hitchcock and the late Mr. Kubrick, since Mehldau contributed to the Eyes Wide Shut soundtrack. ========= SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications PO Box 6163 Arlington, VA 22206 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com www.1480kHz.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:53:37 -0400 From: rosso@videotron.ca Subject: Re: Robyn tunings help On 22 Sep 2002 at 16:46, Imanol Ugarte wrote: > Hi all, > > As a Robyn fan and guitar player too, I use to play -mostly at home- many of his songs trying to sound as "loyal" > to his picking style as I can. It doesn't work often though :-( > > Anyway, I am very happy with some "rare" tunings I've found, they work perfectly on several songs, for instance: FADGCE (Heliotrope), or We debated that one, but I don't remember if we ever settled on it. You might check the archives. I have some archives of my own of a now-dead sublist for tabbing Robyn songs. Maybe I can find something there. > EA#DGBE (Raymond Chandler Evening)... Robyn says he never messed with alternate tunings until Moss Elixir. Not to say you couldn't work out nice-sounding versions with other tunings. Like Norwegian Wood, for instance: Is that really DADGAD, or was I just lucky to find it plays so well in that tuning. > I'd like to know more about Glass Hotel, Each of Her Siver Wands,Never Stop Bleeding,and others. Unless Robyn is lying or forgetting, all pre-ME material is standard tuning. > > Is there any guitarist with some "secret" tabs and tuning information out there? We can't seem to restore the momentum tabbing once had on this list. I'd love to see more. > > Thanks in advance > Imanol Imanol tabber myself. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #298 ********************************