From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #353 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, November 3 2002 Volume 11 : Number 353 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Paging Mr. Davies ["The Real Mr. Feg" ] Boating Accident ["Montauk Daisy" ] Re: Travel in Europe/welcome ["Stewart C. Russell" ] RE: Nuns on the Run ["Timothy Reed" ] The Truth About The Soft Boys ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: i can't help myself, i'm a fool in love you see. [gSs ] Senor Zimmerman picks up the "bootleg" pace? [Jeff Dwarf Subject: Paging Mr. Davies Eddie: > jet-setter jim davies showed up with jeme and vivien in tow. I gather Jim's headed south to SF. Anyone know how to contact him to link him up with the pre-Slims festivities? Eddie? Viv? ~N - -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -Pablo Picasso ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 14:52:59 +0000 From: "Montauk Daisy" Subject: Boating Accident Drew: >Long words are nice but there's something >very satisfying about being able to use short chewy Anglo-Saxon >words. Great description. I love short punchy words (or chewy. Cause I like words that immediatly take you to physical association, like chewy or punchy.) I like language that makes the complicated simple without over-simplifying. - ----------------------------------- Miles: >It's like there was this Soft Boys Robyn all the time, existing in this other dimension, >growing and developing all the while we've been listening to Solo Robyn, but now there's been some sort of celestial fol-de-rol and they've been >swapped out. Well put. - --------------- Rex, have a great party. - ---------------------- James-- I can be Morticia! Ohhhhh thank you. Charles Adams lived near my parents when I was growing up, and they had some common friends, so somehow I ended up at some of Addams parties as a kid. He really did have suits of armor and lots of goth stuff well before goth. It was way fun. Can Drew be Cousin It;-? And you James are obviously from the New Zealand branch of the family. But who are you? And whose the lion? - --------------------- From the BillBoard Revie: >A vibrant version of "Underwater Moonlight" -- replete with a Hitchcock >reenactment of the actual boating accident that inspired the song And I thought at one point he was parodying Scotty in Star Trek. What actual boating accident inspired the song? Anyone know? - ---------------------- Hi Perry. Sit down, make yourself at home. Can I get you a bloodshake? Perhaps some nightshade tea? A poisenous plant thats calling your name? - ------------------------- Kay, yeah Im working today _________________________________________________________________ Broadband? Dial-up? Get reliable MSN Internet Access. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 10:22:08 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Travel in Europe/welcome James Dignan wrote: > > For example, dusk in Glasgow's about 4pm in January. but it feels much, much earlier -- sunrise on 1 Jan is a shade before 9am, sunset (as you said) about 4pm, with twilight ending about 40 minutes later. There are bits of Alaska further south than Glasgow. That's why we moved way south to Toronto ... Stewart (mind you, on 1 Jul, Glasgow sunrise is 04:40, sunset 22:05, with a good hour of twilight at both ends!) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:33:56 -0500 From: "Timothy Reed" Subject: RE: Nuns on the Run Hi - I'm just seconding this - the show I saw in NJ was as good as the time I saw Robyn perform with the Egyptians at the old 9:30 club around 1987. And *that* was a great set. These are, IMO, *much* better than the performances during the last Soft Boys tour, which I thought were a little perfunctory. Quit your job if you must. Tim > i even briefly considered > skipping the show > altogether -- VERY glad i didn't. > > hear me now, san francisco and l.a. fegs not yet decided > upon whether to attend: DO NOT MISS THIS TOUR. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 12:05:36 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: The Truth About The Soft Boys Has anyone noticed that the The Truth About Charlie soundtrack lists Mr. Kennedy as being preformed by Robyn Hitchcock and not The Soft Boys? This is the second time isn't it? On The McCartney tribute Let Me Roll It was credited to only Robyn as well. Max _________________________________________________________________ Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:26:07 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: i can't help myself, i'm a fool in love you see. On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, drew wrote: > I may have voted for a Republican once upon a time, but I can't > recall doing so. If I were ever presented with one who seemed > superior to the Democratic candidate I'd give them my vote. that's partisanshipismocity. i don't know a politician that i would describe as superior to another politician. it's like getting to choose your method of execution. i guess it's more the job than the person. one day the words politician and nazi could carry similar associations. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:04:05 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: Travel in Europe/welcome On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, James Dignan wrote: > one major disadvantage though is daylight hours. Much of Europe is further > north than the US, and in winter daylight hours can be short, especially if > you're planning to go to Scotland, Russia, or Scandinavia. Not a hassle for > indoor sights (museums and the like), but I pain if the main purpose of > your visit is to see the buildings and landscape. For example, dusk in > Glasgow's about 4pm in January. Then again, the twilights are very long, so > you can go for a seriously lengthy roam in the gloaming. thanks for the reply. after further consideration northern and eastern Europe in January might not be the best plan. i would need more light. i have an ex from high school who moved to Fairbanks, Alaska and she has told me about waterskiing at two in the morning in the summer. i never saw that as an advatage to living so far north. and think i would be uncomfortable living somewhere with 1.07 of a man for every 1.00 of a woman. so for a first time visitor spring would probably be much more advantageous. canada was fun this last spring and although it was still a bit cold, i beat the rush. so i just have to wait a few months. for a little while it felt like i had a big stick up my ass and needed to leave as soon as possible. i guess it's come out now. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 04:50:31 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Senor Zimmerman picks up the "bootleg" pace? http://www.icemagazine.com/daily/187/index.asp friday november 1, 2002 In the current issue of ICE, we have a story on Bob Dylans new, upcoming release in his archival Bootleg Series, drawn from his 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour (and due in stores November 26). We also point out that Dylan and Columbia/Sony Legacy have been very slow in putting out Bootleg Series releases, with only two issued in the last 10 years (and Rolling Thunder being the third). Then we say that its promised the pace will pick up significantly in the near future. Well, Sony has now committed itself in print, although, of course, there are no guarantees in life. In the press materials sent out with advance CDs (only to the media) of the new Rolling Thunder release, theres a couple of enticing sentences buried near the end: "Sony will soon be releasing more music from the vaults in the Bootleg Series. Look for the complete 1964 Philharmonic Hall concert in 2003." For Dylan fans and music historians, this has to be considered good news on a number of levels. Firstly, its encouraging that Sony and Dylan are promising to pick up the pace with another Bootleg Series release only one year after the previous one (Rolling Thunder). Its also encouraging because Dylans 1964 Philharmonic Hall concert is one of the most compelling acoustic shows ever performed in his early years. The concert took place on Halloween Night, October 31, 1964, and simply put, Dylan was in a great mood. He was lively, funny, animated, and most importantly, into most of the songs that night. The show has been bootlegged in fairly good quality, but weve already found out from previous Bootleg Series releases (including the new Rolling Thunder) that what we once thought was "great quality" frequently pales in comparison when an official release comes out. Although several soundboard bootlegs exist of mid-70s Rolling Thunder shows, the sound quality of the new two-CD set is flooring those whove heard it so far. So if Sony keeps its word, fans can look forward to a supreme early Dylan concert that consisted of, in order: "The Times They Are A-Changin," the only known live performance of "Spanish Harlem Incident," "Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues," "To Ramona," "Who Killed Davey Moore?" "Gates of Eden," "If You Gotta Go, Go Now," "Its Alright, Ma (Im Only Bleeding)," "I Dont Believe You," "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall." (At the time, songs like "Its Alright, Ma" and "Tambourine Man" were brand new to audiences.) After intermission, Dylan returned with "Talking World War III Blues," "Dont Think Twice, Its All Right," "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," and then is joined by reigning folk queen Joan Baez for a duet on "Mama, You Been on My Mind," a solo vocal by Baez on the traditional "Silver Dagger" (with Dylan on guitar and harmonica), then duets again on "With God on Our Side" and "It Aint Me, Babe," and then Dylan finishes the concert alone with "All I Really Want to Do." The paper version of ICE will be sure to run the full story when the release is scheduled next year. In the meantime, have a great weekend! Pete Howard ===== "If we don't allow journalists, politicians, and every two-bit Joe Schmo with a cause to grandstand by using 9-11 as a lame rhetorical device, then the terrorists have already won." -- "Shredder" "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt . HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #353 ********************************