From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #363 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, November 8 2002 Volume 11 : Number 363 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: But can you get a PhD in it? (warning: incipient rant) [Jeffrey with ] Re: FW: fegmaniax-digest V11 #359 ["Michael E. Kupietz" ] Re: Thanks... [Jeff Dwarf ] We stand on guards for thee (I hope they don't mind) [grutness@surf4nix.c] Re: We stand on guards for thee (I hope they don't mind) [] RE: Geek Chic ["da9ve stovall" ] Re: FW: fegmaniax-digest V11 #359 [gSs ] Whoa! ... Beefheart returns as if by Magic [MPys2626@aol.com] Re: Daniel Johnston [Perry Amberson ] Elvis at the Tabernacle (0% RH or SB) [Perry Amberson ] Watch Your Badly Drawn Boy ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Watch Your Badly Drawn Boy ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat] Re: Watch Your Badly Drawn Boy ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Strange Tales from The Largo ["Greg Ranocchia" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:49:38 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: But can you get a PhD in it? (warning: incipient rant) Quoting James Dignan : > >From Ansible, the email journal of all that's strange in the fields of > science ficion and fantsy, comes this: > > >_BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER_ was the subject of a whole academic conference > >at the University of East Anglia on 19-20 October: `Blood, Text and > >Fears: Reading around _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_'. What a shame that > >_Ansible_ didn't learn until too late about such programme highlights as > >`Meaning and Myth: Leitmotivic Procedures in the Musical Underscore to > >_Angel_, Season One', `Yeats's Entropic Gyre and Season Six of _BtVS_', > >or the irresistible `Unaired Pilot or Bad Quarto: Textual Problems in > >Buffy and Shakespeare in an Internet Age'. Without assuming James agrees that such news is suitable for a publication emphasizing the "strange" in sf/fantasy, I will note that those who do so assume apparently further assume the following: * The business of academic conferences, papers, and degrees has to do with holding things up for admiration as complex, timeless objects of pseudo-worship for intellectuals. Otherwise, I suppose, no one would think anything funny about a conference paper entitled "Yeats's Entropic Gyre and Joyce's 'The Dead.'" * The objects of study are "deep" and "complex" in themselves, and therefore cannot be the sorts of things that normal, everyday people (such as the editors of magazines and newspapers) would be interested in. For an academic to be interested in the same thing is "slumming," pretending to do work when really the academic should go back to Shakespeare and stop goofing off. Problem is, even the simplest things become complex in their interaction with a complex society - and people tend to forget that Shakespeare, the sine qua non of "classic English literature," was a popular artist who wrote in a popular medium, one belittled at the time as unfit for the higher stuff of the classics (written, of course, in Greek or Latin). If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd probably write for television or be a screenwriter. A damned good one, to be sure - but the analogous contemporary medium wouldn't be a "high art" one. Of course, none of that prevents those papers from possibly sucking horribly. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: When the only tool you have is an interociter, you tend to treat :: everything as if it were a fourth-order nanodimensional sub-quantum :: temporo-spatial anomaly. :: --Crow T. Maslow ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:54:28 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz" Subject: Re: FW: fegmaniax-digest V11 #359 At 7:46 PM -0500 11/7/02, Fric Chaud spake thus: >However, the definition of a Confederation is very clear: Association >of Sovereign states which have delegate certain competences with >common bodies. Someone's been playing with the visualthesaurus, I see! :-P -pfffffffffft! Just kidding :-) Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 22:01:57 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: misc MP3 tidbits Just thought I'd let you guys know, I've posted a couple of odds & ends in the Files section of the "Vibrating" yahoo group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Vibrating/files/> the RobynHitchcockClub@yahoo folks. I figure a lot of you have most of this stuff, but if any of this is of interest to anyone, sign up & grab it, I think Theo leaves these things posted there for about a week. "Watch Your Intelligence", if you don't have it, is well worth the download. Mike In the Vibrating group's files section, in the "Rarities - not live" folder: "Watch Your Intelligence" rockin' studio track commercially available only on the "So You Think You're In Love" CD single. One of my favorite RH obscurities. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Vibrating/files/RH%20Rarities-Not%20Live/WatchYourIntelligence.mp3> "Each Of Her Silver Wands" the original version from Mossy Liquor vinyl release. I thought now with so many of us picking up Side Three with the full band version, this might be nice. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Vibrating/files/RH%20Rarities-Not%20Live/SilverWands.mp3> "Trilobite" another song I really like from Mossy Liquor. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Vibrating/files/RH%20Rarities-Not%20Live/Trilobite.mp3> And in the file section's "Rarities - Live" folder... From the "Invisible History" bootleg: "Outlaw Blues" (Dylan) live at the Hope & Anchor, March, 1980. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Vibrating/files/RH%20%20Rarities-Live%26Rare/OutlawBlues.mp3> "Postman's Knock" (Traditional) Live at the Portland Arms, Nov. 1978. Same show as, but not included on, the Live At The Portland Arms release. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Vibrating/files/RH%20%20Rarities-Live%26Rare/PostmansKnock.mp3> And lastly, since there was still space left, the somewhat ubiquitous but still lovely acoustic "Mr. Kennedy" from Maxwells, Oct. 18, 2000 w/ Grant Lee Phillips. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Vibrating/files/RH%20%20Rarities-Live%26Rare/KennedyAcoustic.mp3> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 00:35:27 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Thanks... ...for various doggie condolences posted on and off the list. I'm such a soggy wreck that I've even temporarily put his picture on my computer desktop. Heaven help me. Incidentally, it cost $112 to get the accredited, white-coated hitman to kill my dog and dispose of the body. Just thought I'd mention this delightful bonus. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 01:22:26 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Thanks... Eb wrote: > ...for various doggie condolences posted on and off the list. > > I'm such a soggy wreck that I've even temporarily put his picture on > my computer desktop. Heaven help me. Two years after having my last dog put down, I still carry his tag in my wallet. > Incidentally, it cost $112 to get the accredited, white-coated hitman > to kill my dog and dispose of the body. Just thought I'd mention this > delightful bonus. Sounds about right. When Barney had to be put down, his vet of 15 years was actually crying about it. Considering how often she has to have such things done, it in a weird way made me feel a bit better -- that he was such a cool dog that it even was making the vet cry about losing him too. ===== "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 . U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 02:18:57 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: We stand on guards for thee (I hope they don't mind) >Genetlemen, your talk of politic of the E.U. is fascinating as always. >Since we talk of no offence intended to your Francophony, Fric, but calling Les Etats Unis the E.U. is just gonna confuse the hell outta them thar monoglots. Seems that Europe has an E.U. as well. >Then where are these Sovereign states? However in the territory called >"Canada", >there is only one Sovereign state... Canada! It is just a question of >seeing the refusal >of Ottawa to see Quebec having diplomatic relations with other countries >to realize >that Quebec is not at all sovereign. The problem as I see it is that it is still considered by many to be "The Dominion of Canada". But what does that mean? It means that the country is dominated by Canada. And that is very true. Everywhere you look from Victoria to St Johns, all you will see is a country completely covered and overwhelmed in Canada and things Canadian (perhaps Quebec is an exception, I'm not going to quibble). I suggest that being regarded as a dominion of Canada is not a good situation for Canada to find itself in at the start of the 21st century. It could all get horribly recursive. Being a dominion of yourself leads you to ask whether you are also the dominion of the dominion of Canada. It is time for Canada to stand up and speak out that it wants its freedom. No longer will it be entirely Canadian - from now on it wishes to be, erm, Canadian! - --- More seriously, I see the same sort of problem as you are describing slowly happening in the UK. As Wales and Scotland start to flex their muscles, the UK will gradually become the FK (possible during the trasition, in order not to confuse too many people, it should be known as the F(U)K?). But the capital of that federation is likely to be London (or, to be precise, the city of Westminster) - definitely part of England. Perhaps it too will face similar problems to Canada. 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, 8 Nov 2002 8:36:55 -0500 From: Subject: Re: We stand on guards for thee (I hope they don't mind) James Dignan wrote: > > calling Les Etats Unis the E.U. is just gonna > confuse the hell outta them thar monoglots. that's what it says on the bilingual packaging here: Produit de E.U., says this box of Barbara's Bakery (a Weetabix company!) Multigrain Strawberry Cereal Bars (mmm...) Oh, and it's "we stand in line for thee". Go to a Timmy's and you'll know why. Alternatively, try going to any government building. Which I'll have to do now, 'cos the CIC has sprung this Permanent Resident Card on us PRs -- at a cool $50 per person. Grr. Stewart (who has a picture of Kate Sheppard and a couple of Whios on his desk. James will know what it is. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 05:14:13 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason S. Miller" Subject: Pitchfork review of Nextdoorland Sorry if this has already been noted. A positive review and one I largely agree with. http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/s/soft-boys/nextdoorland.shtml Other interesting news... "Captain Beefheart's Magic Band to Reunite at Autechre-Curated ATPUK2003 Festival" The tagline says it best: "I think I just glitched my pants" http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/02-11/07.shtml Jason ------------------------------ Date: 8 Nov 2002 07:28:58 -0800 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: RE: Geek Chic >do I smell a thread coming on? > >My favorite cool geeks (from the music world): > ... >Henry Kaiser ... >- -ed I'll tell ya - Henry isn't looking very geeky lately. I'm still basking in the afterglow of the show my girlfriend and I saw a few weeks ago that featured Mike Keneally and Henry Kaiser, along with Michael Manring, Chris Muir, Damon Smith, Lukas Ligeti and Chris Cutler (Chris ^@%#$%$ Cutler!!!) all together as Palace of Love (Great American Music Hall, San Francisco 19 October). This was the first time I've been able to see Kaiser in person, and he's slim and trim and doesn't look a day over 35, though I know he's farther along than that. Not that I'm conflating "old" with "geeky" - but Henry's looks fit him more into the Patrick Stewart/slightly-younger-Sean Connery mould than the geek category - besides which, his lady friend/wife/whatever couldn't have been over thirty, and was A Very Attractive Young Lady Indeed. (Speaking of moulds, Bob Mould pulled the same thing - started working out and taking care of himself and now looks easily ten years younger and more healthy than he did ten years ago.) Now Chris Cutler, *there's* a geek. Amazing, violently non-textbook drummer, but a geek beyond doubt. da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:10:28 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: FW: fegmaniax-digest V11 #359 On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, R. Edward Poole wrote: > > On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 08:46 AM, gSs wrote: > > hah? shouldn't that be a-ha? we have people running around yelling the > > sky is falling and i should lighten up? i think your filter needs > > adjustment. it's interesting to watch die-hard democrats and their > > reaction to bush after watching die-hard republicans and their > > reaction to clinton. it's the same shit coming from what looks like > > the same mouths. the similarity makes me uncomfortable with both sides > yeah, but your reaction to ME -- not the "sky is falling" crowd -- > seemed a bit extreme, but whatever, I truly don't care. i you didn't care we wouldn't be having this discussion. i wrote a response to: "Welcome back to Cracker America, or as Joe Conason says" which was: "well, if you sorry assed partisan motherfuckers" followed by a response: "So let me see if I understand you correctly. You're saying that because I generally vote for Democrats, it's my fault when Republicans win. Yes?" to which i said: ".......yes" to which you replied: "in the land of the free..." and i wrote "exactly, freedom has empowered us to shape our system as we see fit. or are you in disagreement with us determining what is best for us?" and that was a bit extreme? you still didn't answer the question. are we not the best at determining what is best for us? if we decided that term limits for instance are a good thing, should we not be allowed to make that law? > I think your basic point about the dead end that is the two party > system is correct, however I disagree that there is absolutely "no > difference" between the two. Did the "Contract With America" amount to > the same thing as "The Great Society"? thankfully not. > Did a Democratic President support -- and a Republican Congress reject -- > the Kyoto Protocols? no. > Are Democrats all good? no. Are Republicans worse? yes. It seems to > me that the best we can hope for out of the present system is > incremental change for the better (Clinton couldn't push through > universal healthcare, but he did extend coverage to a LOT of poor kids) did he? are you forgetting about the welfare reforms he signed into law? if clinton had included the people we elected to make those decisions and had at least given the rest of the public a chance to observe we might have a universal healthcare system in place today. but clinton appointed(?) an un-elected twit who's intent was to keep the whole process veiled in so much secrecy that it could never get the support it needed. plus did you ever actually study any of the proposals. if you want to talk about underhanded, non democratic processes, hillary's push for universal healthcare still gets all the cake. > I'm a lawyer, so my perspective might be skewed a bit, but I believe > that the federal judiciary is (by far) the most powerful and important > branch of government. Only the Courts have the power -- indeed, in my > view, the responsibility -- to be a counterweight to majoritarian > tyranny. the tyrannical majority? > And now the Republicans, with their single-issue litmus test > for "fitness" for the bench -- opposition to abortion -- have the > unfettered power to nominate and confirm whomever they want to. not all republicans oppose abortion and not all democrats support it. i think abortion is wrong in all but a few circumstances and i'll never have an abortion but i won't violently or hardly passively, oppose the procedure. > And you can bet they will not be appointing a lot of 75 year old law school > professors -- there will be a lot of Clarence Thomases coming up -- > young, career politicos, with little or no judicial experience, but who > owe their loyalty (and, often, their livelihoods) to the republican > party, and who will stick around for 40 years, working tirelessly to > roll back protections for civil liberties, minority rights, and > reproductive choice, while cutting away at the Warren Court's 4th > Amendment jurisprudence, expanding the power of the police at the > expense of constitutional protections for the accused, demolishing the > putative wall separating church and state, rubber-stamping the > intrusive initiatives and unreasonable searches of the Dept of > "Homeland Defense," etc etc. it does sound like you think the sky is falling. > And, as much as you like to say that > those of us who "play along" with the two party system are only > helping to perpetuate it, people like you who refuse to work within the > system to change it i'm working througout the system to destroy it. > -- and who scoff at the very notion -- just play > into the hands of those who would hijack the system to their own ends > -- after all, if you despair of making any impact within the current > structures, you present no roadblocks to those who do work the system > to acheive their own policy choices. > And I think that's too bad -- the > system desparately needs the infusion of energy and ideas that > committed people such as yourself would bring to it, but instead you > carp from the sidelines about the futility of it all, giving unfettered > passage to the loyal soldiers of the "Bushie Revolution." yechh. i preach. drew carps. :> gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:35:24 EST From: MPys2626@aol.com Subject: Whoa! ... Beefheart returns as if by Magic HOLY CRAP boys and girls!!! ...m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CAPTAIN BEEFHEART'S LEGENDARY MAGIC BAND REUNITES AFTER 20 YEARS! BAND IS SLATED TO RECORD IN WINTER 2002 AND PERFORM AT 2 UPCOMING 2003 ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES FESTIVALS AND AT LONDON'S SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE After 20 over years dormant, Captain Beefheart's legendary group, the Magic Band is slated to reunite this year. The news comes after the member's decision to accept a request to perform, on Sunday April 6th, at the upcoming All Tomorrow's Parties festival in the UK, which will be curated by notable experimental/electronic group Autechre. They will also play at Londons Shepherds Bush Empire the following night (April 7th), and later, at yet another All Tomorrow's Parties Festival, this time in Los Angeles. The L.A. show, which will be curated this year by visionary animator/producer Matt Groening, and was curated last year by Sonic Youth, will take place on the campus of UCLA as well as at other selected venues in downtown Los Angeles. For Beefheart/Magic Band fans these are momentous occasions. For those unexposed to their genius, the shows will be a rare chance to experience the wildly influential and seminal group first hand. Tickets for ATP UK cuarted by Autechre are currently on sale via the festival website www.alltomorrowsparties.co.uk and tickets for the Shepherds Bush Empire will go on sale Weds October 30th 2002 from www.wayahead.com Tickets for ATP LA are likely to go on sale before the end of the year. Go to www.alltomorrowsparties.co.uk for the details. The first order of biz will see the Magic Band, sans much-celebrated leader Captain Beefheart, (Don Van Vliet) who retired from music altogether over twenty years ago, re-enter the recording studio. The unexpected 'next' record will essentially be a recorded rehearsal with the band playing numbers live-to-tape from heralded records like Trout Mask Replica, Safe As Milk and Lick My Decals Off, Baby at a secret studio location. The new record will be available for purchase at, among other points, the UK All Tomorrow's Parties festival in the Spring, and will be widely available elsewhere in early summer. The formative lineup is expected to be in place and will include Mark "Rockette Morton" Boston on bass, John "Drumbo" French on drums, Gary "Mantis" Lucas and Denny "Feelers Reebo" Walley on Guitars. www.alltomorrowsparties.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ np ~ RoadRews (Kimberley Rew carcomp ceedeeare) ...YEAH! You Can Chop Em Down Like Weeds ... ...But You'll Never Make Them Love You ~ R.H. http://www.mitchworldusa.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:42:43 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Amberson Subject: Re: Daniel Johnston JBJ wrote >>> I think a lot of Johnston's word choice and cadence remind me of Syd Barrett. <<< As different as their musical styles are, there is definitely something in common, if only that touch of genius peeking out through the fractured mind. It's a little painful to listen to Johnston (or post-breakdown Barrett) in large doses, but an occasional visit can prove quite enlightening. UNPAID COMMERCIAL PLUG: Any current or future subscribers to a certain pay-MP3 site that starts with an "E" can download 128 kbps files of around 13 complete Daniel Johnston albums. If you should choose to go there, you can also find 'Underwater Moonlight and how it got there,' 'Nextdoorland,' and 'Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival,' not to mention pretty much the entire Mary Timony/Helium catalogue which is as strange and beautiful as any music currently being made. (Which is another way of saying, damn, that's another artist I left off my list of recommended listening for the most likely computer-generated Greta/Gretchen.) - --Perry ______________________________________________ U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:02:47 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Amberson Subject: Elvis at the Tabernacle (0% RH or SB) Hello everyone, I was writing to tell a friend about a great concert I attanded last night in Atlanta. Since there's bound to be an Costello fan or two among the Feglandians, I thought I'd pass it on to you all: >>> Jane [my wife] and I had a lovely time last night. Curtis [a friend] called me out of the blue at work yesterday morning and asked me if I had any plans for the evening. I told him I didn't, and he told me that he and his wife were planning to go see Elvis Costello at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, but that she was feeling bad and might not be able to make it. Would I be interested in using her ticket, free of charge? I told him "hell, yes." His wife took a turn for the better early in the afternoon, but by then Jane and I had talked about Elvis so much we decided to go anyway. I know you're not a fan, but you would have loved it. Elvis and band (which was essentially his 70s/80s band The Attractions except for the substitution of a different bass player--seems Elvis and Bruce Thomas have had a falling out in recent years) kicked ass for damn near three hours. The encores ended up lasting nearly as long as the show proper. He did lots of old stuff from the albums I loved 20 years ago, and some of the better songs from his most recent album (a return to form after too many extracurricular activities with Burt Bacharach and the like). He even delivered a little rant about Alan Jackson's 9-11 song winning the CMA award for song of the year, and played a few "real" country songs to show the difference. ("Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down," etc.) And it would have done your heart good to see Elvis's drummer, Pete Thomas, beating hell out of his kit. He's easily about five or six years older than Elvis (and Elvis turns 48 this year), and he rocked like a m*therfucker all night. Another great concert event only two weeks after my double dose of The Soft Boys has got me really feeling excited about music again. <<< - --Perry _______________________________________________ U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:33:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: SBs On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Eb wrote: > Matthew claimed that the band Free was his impetus for taking up the > bass, which I thought was an interesting revelation. Makes sense. There was a moment in (probably) 1970 when Free were absolutely the coolest thing going, I think because all the fast and mid-tempo bands were so impressed with the control that Andy Fraser and Simon Kirke possessed - bit similar to Richie Hayward and Roy Estrada a year or two later. Fraser moved to Sharks(?) and then disappeared - any idea what happened to him? I never thought that Tetsu was in the same league. - - MRG n.p. Scarecrow ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 09:36:12 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Watch Your Badly Drawn Boy >"Watch Your Intelligence" rockin' studio track commercially available only >on the "So You Think You're In Love" CD single. One of my favorite RH >obscurities. I have this song on a compilation titled "If we give you this CD, will you be our best friend?" Since it was a freebie, I guess the "commercially available" description still holds true for the single. Saw Badly Drawn Boy last night. Quite the amusing lad, occasionally making up lyrics as he goes along. He put on a long show for a small club act, well over two hours. His loose stage style was definitely entertaining. His new album is titled "Have You Fed the Fish?" Hmmm... The opening act was a really odd (in a "trying too hard" kind of way) folkster named Adam Green. He almost seemed to be doing an SNL parody. Humorous at times, and thus enjoyable, but not at all impressive. And he's opening again for the Strokes tomorrow in Vegas, so I get to see him twice. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:51:13 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Watch Your Badly Drawn Boy At 9:36 AM -0800 11/8/02, Jason R. Thornton spake thus: >I have [Watch Your Intelligence] on a compilation titled "If we give you >this CD, will you >be our best friend?" Since it was a freebie, I guess the "commercially >available" description still holds true for the single. Interesting. You should let Bayard know, that's not in Robynbase. Good song, eh? Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 10:04:04 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Watch Your Badly Drawn Boy At 09:51 AM 11/8/2002 -0800, Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat wrote: >Interesting. You should let Bayard know, that's not in Robynbase. It is, however, listed here: http://www.robynhitchcock.com/promodiscography.htm Here's the full track list from another site, if anyone is even remotely interested: IF WE GIVE YOU THIS CD, WILL YOU BE OUR BEST FRIEND? 1991 - A & M Records Track list: So You Think You're In Love - R.Hitchcock Watch Your Intelligence - R.Hitchcock Which Way Should I Jump - Milltown Brothers Diplomat - Milltown Brothers Say Hello To Heaven - Temple of the Dog Pushin Forward Back - Temple of the Dog Gorgeous Love - Kitchen of Distinction The Third Time - Kitchen of Distinction And Hiding Away - The Innocence Mission Now In This Hush - The Innocence Mission Rave Down - Swervedriver Invitation - The Feelies Mrs. Rita - Gin Blossoms >Good >song, eh? I've always liked it. I usually put it on Robyn mixes that I make people. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:40:22 -0800 From: "Greg Ranocchia" Subject: Strange Tales from The Largo Was an interesting night at The Largo, Robyn played on 1 1/2 hour set, = as opposed to the usual two short sets he tends to play there. The set = was filled with so many strange and humorous monologue, I am still = laughing about some of it. Also, there are many either new songs, or = songs that are covers that are so obscure that I have not been able to = come up with anything. If anyone has any idea's on some of these, = please feel free to comment. Robyn was joined by Jon Brion most of the = night, and a little by Grant Lee Phillips also. Also a great 5 minute = impromptu song (see below) which I hope ends up on something officially = released some day. Robyn played his 6 string acoustic all night, except = one song in which he was on the piano, and the one song his electric = (see below). The Largo - Hollywood, CA 11/7/02 Robyn alone with a 6 string acoustic: 1. "Creeped-Out American Girl"? or "Everything is Happening Behind Your = Eyes"? (Not sure of the title of this, any comments would be = appreciated) 2. Wax Doll Robyn with a 6 string acoustic & Jon Brion on Piano 3. "Let the Sun Begin to Make You Feel Better"? (Not sure of the title = of this, any comments would be appreciated) 4. "I Love the Idea of You"? (Not sure of the title of this, any = comments would be appreciated) 5. Little Kara Discovers the Ice-Cream Van (An interesting impromptu = song about a demon infested Ice Cream truck out at night, with Jon Brion = on Evil Piano and Robyn on Acoustic Guitar) 6. Madelaine (Paul Roland) 7. "When I Saw"? or "Idonia"? (Not sure of the title of this, any = comments would be appreciated) Robyn with a 6 string acoustic & Jon Brion on Drums 8. "I'll Remember You, That's What Hurts"? or "I Will Never Hear the = Sound of Sounds"? (Not sure of the title of this, any comments would be = appreciated) Robyn with a 6 string acoustic, Jon Brion on Piano, Grant Lee Phillips = on Banjo and Piano 9. Soriatane (I assume a new Robyn Song - He said it was about some = great English pain medication, that he did not have any of, on his = person) Robyn with a 6 string acoustic, Jon Brion on Piano, Grant Lee Phillips = on 12 acoustic guitar 10. A Man has to know his limitations, Briggs (Second Time he has done = this at the Largo) Robyn with a 6 string acoustic, Jon Brion on Banjo, Grant Lee Phillips = on 12 acoustic guitar 11. Honky Tonkin' (Hank Williams, Sr.) Robyn with a 6 string acoustic, Jon Brion on Piano, Grant Lee Phillips = on 12 acoustic guitar 12. Blue Moon of Kentucky Keep on Shining (Bill Monroe) Robyn with a 6 string acoustic & Jon Brion on Piano 13. Open the Door, Richard (Words by "Dusty" Fletcher & John Mason - = Music by Jack Mcvea & Dan Howell) Encores Robyn alone on the piano 14. The Executioner Robyn with a 6 string electric guitar and Jon Brion on Drums 15. Are You Experienced? (Hendrix) Robyn with a 6 string acoustic & Jon Brion on Piano 16. Heliotrope=20 Kototh kototh@sbcglobal.net I've added an extra ingredient, just for you. The Merciless Peppers of = Quetzlzacatenango, grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a = Guatemalan insane asylum! - Police Chief Clancy Wiggum [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/bmp which had a name of pepper.bmp] ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #363 ********************************