From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #4 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, January 6 2003 Volume 12 : Number 004 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: moovees [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Wait, wait [Jill Brand ] Spirited Away [Jill Brand ] uplifting [Jill Brand ] Combos ["Michael Wells" ] Elixirs & Remedies - Help! Please!! ["Charlotte Tupman" > only movie I know of with a Dignan character is "Rocket Bottle" - that it? > >Correct, except that's either "Rocket, Bottle" or the more familiar title of >"Bottle Rocket" gah. You northern hemispherers. Next you'll be telling me the sun travels across the sky from left to right! >Once again I have to agree wholeheartedly with you. When I hear >something like "Gwyneth Paltrow is going to play Sylvia Plath" >I instantly reach for my sick bag, but if I stop and think about >it I have to admit that she is really appealing and serious and >just plain _good_ on screen. Agreed, although personally, I'm as interested in the fact that this movie might be Daniel Craig's 'big break'. He is a very good actor, although previously best known for TV (notably the excellent "Our friends in the north"). 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: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:20:36 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: Wait, wait OK, how many other people heard Cheese Alarm on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me today. It was played after a limerick that ended with the word cheese. So, is there a feg on the production staff or did someone do a web search for cheese songs? Jill P.S. Kay, I'm not a Gwyneth Paltrow aficionada or anything, but she was really pretty good in the movie The Anniversary Party (a wonderfully uncomfortable film written and directed and acted in by Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:30:24 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: Spirited Away Because of all the fegommendations and Steve's list of hot reviews, my family went to see Spirited Away on New Year's Day. I usually find animation a big big big yawn, but I figured if I didn't like it, I would then know that no number of thumbs up would willingly get me to an animated film again. Well, whooooooo, I want to go out and see it again. And this time, I want to see it in Japanese so that I won't keep trying to figure out who does the English voices (I KNEW Lin was the same actress who does the voice for Megora in Herkules!). It was fabulous, really. Did anyone think of the baby in Alice in Wonderland during the baby scenes in SA? Jill, listening to the new hamster going manic on the treadmill ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:43:24 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: uplifting Kay, our geek wannabe (keep trying, darling) wrote: "And I felt that the bleak,pessimistic,heroic, anglo/saxon poetry-like feel of the 2nd book was what was blunted." Yeah, I gotta agree. Those 3+ hours were so bright and uplifting. I mean, what was Jackson thinking? And a happy youngster birthday to ourHerbie. I remember 30. Just not very well. I did see the Smiths right before my 30th birthday - that I do recall. Jill, who is reading The Hobbit aloud to her daughter and is curious to see if this will get her (Jill, not daughter) past page 87 on this 4th attempt ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:41:40 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Combos "Elixers & Remedies" came this week (yeah!) and it got me thinking...this past year alone there were the Dave Alvin/Peter Case/Chris Smither ('Avalon Blues') and Grant-Lee Phillips/John Doe/Kristin Hersh ('Exile Follies') tours, not to mention the stellar Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon deal a couple months ago. Has there been a better time in recent memory where singer-songwriters have toured together like this? Not just the 'opener-who-comes-back-on-for-a-song-with-the-headliner' but full-on cooperative shows, where performers spend much of the time together and seem to really enjoy performing each others work. It's been great, in any case. And John Doe is coming back next month, yeah baby. Michael who swears he sees the back of Eddie's head a couple times in 'Elixers' ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:15:48 +0000 From: "Charlotte Tupman" Subject: Elixirs & Remedies - Help! Please!! Could somebody please put me out of my misery and tell me where I can order a copy of Elixirs and Remedies? Many thanks! Charlotte P.S. why is it that they only sell the 'Underwater Moonlight' T-shirts in extra large? Most unreasonable for those of us under 5'3"... _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:28:33 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: Elixirs & Remedies - Help! Please!! > Could somebody please put me out of my misery and tell me where I can order > a copy of Elixirs and Remedies? Many thanks! http://www.scotopiapictures.com/Merchandise/merchandiseglh.html > P.S. why is it that they only sell the 'Underwater Moonlight' T-shirts in > extra large? Most unreasonable for those of us under 5'3"... You may be OK with that, the shirts sold as XL on the UM tour in '01 were actually Mediums in disguise or else sized for dwarfs. For those of us over 6'3", where were the tarp-sized 5XL's? Michael "I stiched two shirts together but the extra armholes looked funny" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:27:39 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Film, which miraculously isn't related to animation/sci-fi/fantasy/Nintendo Who on the list has seen Kieslowski's "The Decalogue"? I finally got through a months-old tape of this brilliant (but lonnnnng) monstrosity, and unfortunately, my tape cut out before the 10th episode finished. Only about five minutes to go! Anyone recall the 10th episode well? The two brothers, fretting over their deceased father's valuable stamp collection? I need someone to fill in the climax for me. I know Eddie has seen this, but he doesn't seem to be dependably around anymore.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:55:23 +0000 (GMT) From: crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com Subject: Ringo as Frodo... Don't think anyone has mentioned that The Beatles were once very interested in doing a film adaptation of Lord Of The Rings. John was keen on playing Gandalf; and they got as far as soliciting David Lean and Stanley Kubrick as director. Apparently Kubrick read the books at the behest of Denis O'Dell, the head of Apple Films, and pronounced a film version 'unmakeable'. O'Dell wanted to push on with the idea, but the Fabs apparently lost interest. Joe >> -Rex, a 63-year old black woman from Florida >Which probably makes you the only Buchanan voter on the list... I thought it was the eldery Jewish constituency that inadvertently voted Buchanan. Blacks weren't allowed to vote in Florida... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #4 ******************************