From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #53 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, February 14 2003 Volume 12 : Number 053 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: apropos of nothing [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Oscar bitching/Drake note [Steve Talkowski ] Re: Catching up [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Speaking of pods... (No RH) [Steve Talkowski ] But Frankfort High, their marching band was straight-up indie-pop ["Rex.B] nick drake tributes ["Chris Browning" ] WOW ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: WOW ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: apropos of nothing [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Re-Covered Memories [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Re-Covered Memories [Eb ] Re: Re-Covered Memories [Tom Clark ] Re: Re-Covered Memories [Glen Uber ] it's a big conspiracy [Jill Brand ] Re: it's a big conspiracy [Ken Weingold ] Re: it's a big conspiracy ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: it's a big conspiracy [Ken Weingold ] Re: apropos of nothing ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" ] Re: apropos of nothing [steve ] Re: Has there ever been a Nick Drake tribute record? ["Brooks Martin" ] If you aren't frightened yet... [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:48:28 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: apropos of nothing Marcy prodded the worm can: >Are you guys around the continents feeling the panic in the air that Shrub >is causing? People are going nuts. On the Dallas news last night, they >showed people wrapping their houses in plastic and stocking up on >water. It's like being in the twilight zone! In this part of the world it's less panic and more resignation. Bush wants his war and by God he's going to have it, and there's bugger all anyone else can do about it. Sad that he's doing exactly what Osama's been trying to do - ruin the US economy, unite the Moslem world against the US, and cause rifts between the US and its allies. There's also, amidst the resignation, a strong feeling of incredulity. Osama and his followers are almost certainly somewhere like Pakistan, Yemen, or Chechnya. Every time US troops go to Yemen, they get bombed. The most active "terrorist organisation (tm)" in the world is in Chechnya. And North Korea is flexing its muscles in contravention of almost every UN resolution going. Meanwhile, Iraq has been under stringent sanctions and surveillance for over a decade, during which time there has been no visible link between them and terror organisations, nor has there been any concrete evidence of any weaponbuilding. So who do the US government target? The easy target, of course, rather than the more dangerous ones. (Is this a case of the choice between Iraq and a hard place?) Yes I know - the answer is that three letter word beginning with O. This is almost certainly the same reason why Iran - surprisingly one of the most western-looking and democratic of moslem nations is paired with Iraq (a coutry it dislikes intensely) as part of an "axis of evil". The incredulity is doubled by the knowledge that Tony Blair is going along with it all. There's no incredulity about Aussie PM Howard's going along with it - everyone knows he's a pillock and wants Australia to be states 51-57 of the US - but I expected more from Blair. 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: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:02:13 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Oscar bitching/Drake note On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 05:48 AM, James Dignan wrote: > I'm, beginning to think I'm the only Feg who has seen/has good things > to > say about "Frida". I saw it during the early release here in NYC and loved it. Salma was amazing and I cringe just thinking of the abomination it would have turned into had Madonna or J-Lo gotten their mitts on it. Of course, I'm a fan of Julie Taymor's work, so that was a plus going in. - -Steve (hoping to get over to MoMA QNS to see the just opened Matisse Picasso exhibit before the terrorist strike! - oh wait, that's scheduled for tomorrow according to the media, right?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:04:50 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Catching up >> It'd be interesting to see how similar this is to how it would look in >> Hawaiian (probably very similar). > >i thought it was Russian at first as it has some similarities. nah. That would be: "Parizh ne nyebesni, Amstyerdam ne nyebesni, Kyohl'n ne nyebesni. Nyebo, eto Tikhii Okeanh - i kogda Robyn Hitchcock navesashchataet k Novoi Zelandiye?" Very similar. 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: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:07:43 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Speaking of pods... (No RH) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/sony.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:19:12 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: But Frankfort High, their marching band was straight-up indie-pop Catherine: >>Do you think it's generational? For instance, I'm flying from Los Angeles to >>London next month Wait a sec... from Los Angeles... I know you "in real life", don't I??? Vis a vis the generational thing, my folks are planning a big cross-country drive to see us, and they frankly seem less worried about terrorism than we do (which isn't much where our personal safety is concerned). But they live in a small town and always have; I think the threat is pretty abstract to them. My dad says he really wishes we would leave Los Angeles, but he was scared of the city long before buildings were being blown up by foreigners. I see no indications of panic in LA other than the annual rain-related hysteria. That's really the overriding psychological mania here. ____ Tom from Philly: >>. . . also wishing i understood what slade has to do with the song, >>exactly. . . For all the talk of this song, nobody's addressed my big question: who or what the hell is "Mount Vesuvius"? I looked up several Slade bios and still couldn't make heads or tails of how or when this volcano was a member. ____________ Eb: >>Both marching band and concert band. Hadn't ever >>talked to him, since then. He was older than me and in a different >>section, but we loosely knew each other because the band was >>extremely hardcore Cool, your marching band was hardcore! Were you also straight-edge? - -Rex Broome, trumpet, Keyser High Marching 100, 1986-1989 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:45:47 -0000 From: "Chris Browning" Subject: nick drake tributes > Has there ever been a Drake "tribute" album? And even if there has, aren't > we doomed by that Volkswagon commercial to a second, less "indie" one pretty > soon (see the two Parsons tributes for reference)? there are at least two: imaginary records put out "brittle days: a tribute to nick drake" in 1992 and has the high llamas, the walkabouts, the times, nikki sudden and clive gregson on it among others. it's - um - enthusiastic with some TERRIBLE songs, some okay ones and in "voice from the mountain" by the oddly name the swinging swine one magical track. the other was a more unusual record from 2000 "elsie and jack and nick drake: sculpting from drake volume one" which can be breathtakingly lovely in places and annoyingly frustrating at other times. it has archer prewitt, electroscope, warn defever and ex cocteau simon raymonde with the autumns. my favourite is archer prewitt's version of "parasite" also look for seventies folk loons tir na nog, and their album "strong in the sun" which starts with a hilariously glammed up version of "ride" called "free ride" with big drums and yelps and guitar squalls. very funny, but also rather charming in it's own way chris - -- "Peotry is sissy stuff that rhymes. Weedy people say la and fie and swoon when they see a bunch of daffodils." Nigel Molesworth ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:01:27 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: WOW http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/67/ New Yorkers, Beck at Maxwell's tomorrow night!!! Max _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:04:15 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: WOW Sorry, sold out. Argh, Max >From: "Maximilian Lang" >Reply-To: "Maximilian Lang" >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: WOW >Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:01:27 -0500 > >http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/67/ > >New Yorkers, Beck at Maxwell's tomorrow night!!! > > Max > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:46:03 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: apropos of nothing Quoting Marcy Tanter : > Are you guys around the continents feeling the panic in the air that > Shrub > is causing? People are going nuts. On the Dallas news last night, they > > showed people wrapping their houses in plastic and stocking up on > water. It's like being in the twilight zone! Strange. I haven't noticed anything like that here: perhaps people are smart enought to recognize that, uh, Al Qaeda has no interest in Wisconsin. I'm rather cynical about the government's "high risk" warnings: I'd say that there's a high risk that we're supposed to get all het up to bomb the fuck out of Iraq, and that the Bushies are doing everything they can to cement the (rather ridiculously improbable) connection between Iraq and 9-11 in everyone's mind, so that when the bombing starts in earnest - hell, when there is a terrorist attack in the US, quite possibly in retaliation for that bombinb - Bush can seem on top of things: "we warned you." Don't forget that Rumsfeld's played with plans to *stage* a terrorist attack on US citizens in order to build up support for a secret black ops entity (I can dig up a reference on that - it was in the _L.A. Times_ last October), so...I wish I was just paranoid. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and :: winds up as a processing unit. :: --Soft Boys, note, _Can of Bees_ np: John Vanderslice "Kyoto Pond Interlude" mp3 from his website ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:52:34 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Re-Covered Memories Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > Second thing, it's an example of an interesting phenomenon, the "cover of > a > cover". Even weirder is when the original artist rearranges the song to suit the better-known cover version: Dylan's latter-years version of "All Along the Watchtower," sounding suspiciously closer to Hendrix's arrangement than Dylan's own original. > Jeffrey: > >>np: some obscure Marmoset mp3 > > Is this a band or are you listening to actual marmoset noises? 'Cuz > damn, > that *would* be obscure. A band, alas - listening to marmoset noises would've been far more feggy. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: we make everything you need, and you need everything we make ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:59:35 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Re-Covered Memories Someone mentioned Cracker covering the Chocolate Watchband's cover of "I'm Not Like Everybody Else".... The Chocolate Watchband did the same, covering Them's cover of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." Idle musing: Wouldn't it be a hoot to hear Ringo Starr cover Joe Cocker's cover of "With a Little Help from My Friends"? ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:10:38 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Re-Covered Memories on 2/13/03 4:59 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: > Idle musing: Wouldn't it be a hoot to hear Ringo Starr cover Joe > Cocker's cover of "With a Little Help from My Friends"? ;) I think Ringo would have an aneurism if he attempted that. Maybe Joe will be part of this years All-Starr touring ensemble. Then they could do it "duelling-Cocker" style ala Belushi. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:44:29 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Re-Covered Memories On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 04:52 PM, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Even weirder is when the original artist rearranges the song to suit > the > better-known cover version: Dylan's latter-years version of "All Along > the > Watchtower," sounding suspiciously closer to Hendrix's arrangement than > Dylan's own original. The Dead did that with "Friend of the Devil". They took Kenny Loggins' arrangement of it and incorporated it into their sets. Interestingly, they also continued to play their original arrangement of it concurrently. FWIW, David Grisman and Lyle Lovett also used Loggins' version as the basis for their versions of the song. Cheers! - -g- "Turn up your nose at red heads? What ignorance! I pity your lack of taste." - -- Mark Twain ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:22:51 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: it's a big conspiracy Do you all think its media hype? I don't. I think its Bush administration hype. I hope to hell I'm right, but it seems to me that we have a country whose viscera are rotting, and people are running around buying duct tape and bottled water. If we took the rest of the world away right now and got people to look at the mess we've got right here, GWB would be sent packing post haste. This all puts me in mind of Silas Stingy, a song from the Who Sell Out. He's really rich and is afraid that all his wealth will be stolen, so he buys a box to put the money in and builds a house to put the box in etc. etc. until he's spent so much protecting the money that he doesn't have any more. By the time we dump all our dollars into the military and fuchsia alerts and super duct tape, there won't be anything left to protect here. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:45:50 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: it's a big conspiracy On Thu, Feb 13, 2003, Jill Brand wrote: > Do you all think its media hype? I don't. I think its Bush > administration hype. I hope to hell I'm right, but it seems to me that we > have a country whose viscera are rotting, and people are running around > buying duct tape and bottled water. If we took the rest of the world away > right now and got people to look at the mess we've got right here, GWB > would be sent packing post haste. > > This all puts me in mind of Silas Stingy, a song from the Who Sell Out. > He's really rich and is afraid that all his wealth will be stolen, so he > buys a box to put the money in and builds a house to put the box in etc. > etc. until he's spent so much protecting the money that he doesn't have > any more. By the time we dump all our dollars into the military and > fuchsia alerts and super duct tape, there won't be anything left to > protect here. Well screw them all. I have two rolls of GAFFER tape. HAH! Had it for years. But all I plan on using it for is gaffing. I'm no jumper of bandwagons. So there. All I plan to buy in preperation is a pack of cigarettes. I haven't smoked a cigarette since July 4, 1995. But if a bomb hits, I'm smokin' up. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:52:07 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: it's a big conspiracy >From: Ken Weingold >Well screw them all. I have two rolls of GAFFER tape. HAH! Had it >for years. But all I plan on using it for is gaffing. I'm no jumper >of bandwagons. So there. All I plan to buy in preperation is a pack >of cigarettes. I haven't smoked a cigarette since July 4, 1995. But >if a bomb hits, I'm smokin' up. > > >-Ken I agree, if they decide to dirty bomb Philly for the sake of the destruction of the proper cheesteak, I am buying a carton of Camel Filters. Smoke free since 93, Max "Regime change in Washington DC" - Camper Van Beethoven _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:04:59 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: it's a big conspiracy On Thu, Feb 13, 2003, Maximilian Lang wrote: > I agree, if they decide to dirty bomb Philly for the sake of the > destruction of the proper cheesteak, I am buying a carton of Camel Filters. Exactly what I used to smoke. But I think this time it would be American Spirits. Even after smoking for a while I tried one of those and got high! - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:39:49 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: apropos of nothing An old friend of mine from New York wrote me today, attaching a copy of his unpublished novel (he's a published author, not just a dreamer, although no disrespect intended to dreamers at all) and the following comments: - -- Begin Forwarded text >I think you should be the curator of my novel, No >Easter, in the event of nuclear catastophy here in terror country. I've >enclosed it with the understanding that, in the event of my untimely >demise, you can make some money off it and then avenge my death. > >It's a rather strange feeling here, the panic. It's like a drug, there's >a perverse attraction. So far today I've been warned against possible >cyanide attack, radiological attack, VX gas attack... I guess you have to >be here to really understand it. Ultimately, I have a strong suspicion >that they are instilling the fear of God in us so everyone will make the >leap in logic that somehow attack Saddam will make these feelings go away. - -- End Forwarded text What a drag. If you can, please dig up the reference to Rumsfeld's plans to stage a terrorist attack. >I'm rather cynical about the government's "high risk" warnings: I'd say >that >there's a high risk that we're supposed to get all het up to bomb the fuck >out of Iraq For over a year now, I've been thinking that somebody needs to tuck our leaders into a great big bed and read them "The Story Of The Boy Who Cried Wolf". Thanks, Mike At 6:46 PM -0600 2/13/03, those funny voices I hear when no one else is around called themselves "Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey" and whispered: >Quoting Marcy Tanter : > >> Are you guys around the continents feeling the panic in the air that >> Shrub >> is causing? People are going nuts. On the Dallas news last night, they >> >> showed people wrapping their houses in plastic and stocking up on >> water. It's like being in the twilight zone! > >Strange. I haven't noticed anything like that here: perhaps people are >smart >enought to recognize that, uh, Al Qaeda has no interest in Wisconsin. > >I'm rather cynical about the government's "high risk" warnings: I'd say >that >there's a high risk that we're supposed to get all het up to bomb the fuck >out of Iraq, and that the Bushies are doing everything they can to cement >the (rather ridiculously improbable) connection between Iraq and 9-11 in >everyone's mind, so that when the bombing starts in earnest - hell, when >there is a terrorist attack in the US, quite possibly in retaliation for >that bombinb - Bush can seem on top of things: "we warned you." Don't >forget >that Rumsfeld's played with plans to *stage* a terrorist attack on US >citizens in order to build up support for a secret black ops entity (I can >dig up a reference on that - it was in the _L.A. Times_ last October), >so...I wish I was just paranoid. > >..Jeff > >J e f f r e y N o r m a n >The Architectural Dance Society >www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html >:: This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and >:: winds up as a processing unit. >:: --Soft Boys, note, _Can of Bees_ > >np: John Vanderslice "Kyoto Pond Interlude" mp3 from his website - -- ======== We need love, expression, and truth. We must not allow ourselves to believe that we can fill the round hole of our spirit with the square peg of objective rationale. - Paul Eppinger At non effugies meos iambos - Gaius Valerius Catallus ("...but you won't get away from my poems.") "Moderation in all things, except Wild Turkey." - Evel Knievel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:48:52 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: apropos of nothing Quoting "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" : > > If you can, please dig up the reference to Rumsfeld's plans to stage a > terrorist attack. It's from an article in the LA Times 10-27-02 by William M. Arkin, titled "The Secret War." At one point it was at , but I think it's no longer free (might be at that URL if you pay for it). Here are some, uh, highlights: "Rumsfeld's influential Defense Science Board 2002 Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of Countering Terrorism says in its classified 'outbrief' - a briefing drafted to guide other Pentagon agencies - - that the global war on terrorism 'requires new strategies, postures and organization.'... "Among other things, this body would launch secret operations aimed at 'stimulating reactions' among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction - that is, for instance, prodding terrorist cells into action and exposing themselves to 'quick-response' attacks by U.S. forces." Of course, there can be no assurance that such terrorist "action" would not include US citizen fatalities. "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists." Glad to know which side Rumsfeld is on. In other homeland insecurity news, this article may explain a few things: http://tinyurl.com/5qkz ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and :: winds up as a processing unit. :: --Soft Boys, note, _Can of Bees_ np: mix CD I'm working on ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:00:56 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: apropos of nothing On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 01:15 PM, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > I wonder if the Texas media is just playing it up more... Even more than the networks, making money is job 1 for local media. Dallas TV is slicker than most of the rest of the state, but they still just put on whatever the dumbfucks will watch. And their are plenty of dumbfucks in Texas to watch it. On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 01:29 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > Yesterday's Doonesbury pretty much summed it up: http://www.uclick.com/client/mwy/db/2003/02/12/index.html Trudeau's still got it. Reports are coming out that the Bushies don't figure they will find any locals to run Iraq. Meanwhile, I've got my 36" TV (German, thank you), although I haven't bothered since Colin Powell went over. I wonder if, when Bush pulls the trigger on that moonless night (and you know they've had it planned for months), they'll start off with a bunch of Daisy Cutters. That should make a nice show for the inevitable Discovery Channel documentary. Irritated that the local NPR station is preempting Diane Rehm tomorrow for meaningless UN coverage. - - Steve __________ So how about using the same shock-value tactics the administration uses in the drug war to confront the public with the ultimate - and much more linearly linked - consequences of their energy wastefulness? Imagine a soccer mom in a Ford Excursion (11 mpg city, 15 mpg highway) saying, "I'm building a nuclear bomb for Saddam Hussein." - Arianna Huffington ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:18:54 -0800 From: "Brooks Martin" Subject: Re: Has there ever been a Nick Drake tribute record? Hello everyone. I'm out of lurk mode to quickly answer a question. Yes! There was a Nick Drake tribute album a couple of years back and it was really great, though not neccesarily guaranteed to please most Nick Drake fans. You can read about it at the label website here: http://www.elsieandjack.com/elsieandjack/eaj010c.html . I like it quite a bit and the packaging is absolutely stunning. It's one of the best looking CDs in my collection. There are some really great Kranky Records type interpretations (including an appearance from Jessica Baliff!) of Nick's songs as well as a near perfect re-creation of Parasite by Archer Prewitt. Sorry no vu content in this post. Not to mention Robyn content. ; ) Happy St. Valentine's Day - -Brooks Martin, Fegmaniac. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:20:56 -0800 From: "Brooks Martin" Subject: Re: Has there ever been a Nick Drake tribute record? Hello everyone. I'm out of lurk mode to quickly answer a question. Yes! There was a Nick Drake tribute album a couple of years back and it was really great, though not neccesarily guaranteed to please most Nick Drake fans. You can read about it at the label website here: http://www.elsieandjack.com/elsieandjack/eaj010c.html . I like it quite a bit and the packaging is absolutely stunning. It's one of the best looking CDs in my collection. There are some really great Kranky Records type interpretations (including an appearance from Jessica Baliff!) of Nick's songs as well as a near perfect re-creation of Parasite by Archer Prewitt. Sorry no vu content in this post. Not to mention Robyn content. ; ) Happy St. Valentine's Day - -Brooks Martin, Fegmaniac. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:40:31 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Fw: Robyn Hitchcock Okay here's the updated information: - ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 2:29 PM Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock > Marc, > I didn't get another call from Robyn, but the promotions people called and > they're happy about the whole thing. They're going to do ticket giveaways > and add the in-store to their ads. I guess it's a full on GO. > Thanks again, > k Robyn will be doing an in-store at Stinkweeds Records on February 19th at 2:30 pm,before he plays at the Rhythm Room. Stinkweeds Record Exchange 1250 E. Apache Blvd. Tempe, AZ 85281 480-968-9490 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:30:03 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: If you aren't frightened yet... On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Jill Brand wrote: > Do you all think its media hype? I don't. I think its Bush > administration hype. The Bush administration doesn't tell the media what to push. They run that which pleases their advertisers, owners, and circulation or ratings in that order. It just so happens that those advertisers and owners are the same people that put Bush in office (and they're the same people that tried to put Gore in office, just to be fair). > I hope to hell I'm right, but it seems to me that we have a country > whose viscera are rotting, and people are running around buying duct > tape and bottled water. If we took the rest of the world away right now > and got people to look at the mess we've got right here, GWB would be > sent packing post haste. Michael Wolfe picked this gem out of the fantastic list of links in eddie's great blog: Aspects of India's Economy Nos. 33 & 34 - Special Issue on the US-Iraq War This article pretty much lays out the situation using U.S. strategic planning documents with some of the less obvious logical leaps laid out in plain english. If you're in the U.S. and reading this, replace "United States of America" with some other nation's name and see if you think it's a reasonable policy to live under as a foreign citizen. Is it really appropriate for one nation to say that their national security requires preventing anyone else from developing an independent and equivalent global role? The double-standard is frightening. I'm especially impressed with the cojones it takes to say that free trade is an absolute, but the United States can implement "safeguards (that) help ensure that the benefits of free trade do not come at the expense of American workers". (So they admit that the cost of the "benefits" of free markets come at the expense of social structures, but that the United States should be able to protect itself from free trade while other nations are at the mercy of the ravages of the market.) J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #53 *******************************