From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #88 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, March 8 2003 Volume 12 : Number 088 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NZ anti-war songs, covers, colours, ice cream [grutness@surf4nix.com (Jam] RE: double reap [hal ] Re: Lemmy! ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" ] Re: Covering (songs) and (your body with offensive garments) UK ["Stewart] RE: Covering (songs) and (your body with offensive garments) UK [Dr John ] Re: for those having a hairy day ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. [Ken Weingold ] Way-belated discovery [Eb ] Fw: Covering (songs) and (your body with offensive garments) US ["Mike We] Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. [Christopher Gross ] RE: Covering (songs) and (your body with offensive garments) US ["Jason B] Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. [Eb ] Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. [Miles Goosens ] Re: Way-belated discovery ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Way-belated discovery [Tom Clark ] Royalties for Robyn ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. ["" ] Re: More information you need to know. [Tom Clark ] Re: More information you need to know. [Eb ] Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing] Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. ["Michael Wells" ] correction: web address [Barbara Soutar ] scott m. drops robyn h.'s name ["The Mammal Brain" ] new band tip [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:45:27 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: NZ anti-war songs, covers, colours, ice cream > I am as usual behind reading the digests, but I couldn't help answering > James' inability to find an NZ anti-war song-what about The Mutton Bird's > "Jackie's Song" ? ahh... I knew there was one, but couldn't bring it to mind. I suspect some of Dave Dobbyn's also count ("Don't hold your breath", maybe?), and possibly Shona Laing's, but was concentrating too much on checking my Flying Nun collection. >Which is a good case in point: if you like Robyn, and he likes this song >well enough to do such a loving cover of it, why would you be irritated by >the original, on which the playing is almost exactly the same? I think it >often comes down to people being stuck on the production styles of certain >eras. Me, I tend to seek out the originals of any intriguing covers by >interesting artists. Cornerstone of my record collection, really. well, to be honest, I am annoyed by the original. But the original is NOT the Byrds' version. I'm annoyed at the original folk version which is in a different time signature. I vastly prefer the Byrds/RH versions and find it jarring when I hear the song with what seems like the wrong rhythm. >I assumed that what it meant was "don't wear the colours of this week's >visiting club, ya knob", but maybe the UK is so much smaller than the US >that London's really full of rowdies for all the clubs, in which case >wouldn't that cover just about any color you could wear? rule of thumb, ISTR, is to check which colours are those of the team playing against Millwall, and then avoiding wearing that. Millwall fans' notoriety encompasses the planet. BTW, I am currently wincing at a (NZ?) ice cream company which has decided to market a "Swinging 60s" series of flavours, including among them Jammy Hendrix, John Lemon, Candy Warhol, Guava Lamp, and Chocwork Orange. Thankfully I fail to remember the remaining four flavour names, but they are equally dire (but tasty) 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, 06 Mar 2003 17:54:50 -0500 From: hal Subject: RE: double reap > > If your initials are HB, I'd stay at home today. > > Hank Ballard, 66 > > Horst Buchholz, 69 Jason: > And former feg Hal Brandt Not 'former', just quieter! /hal ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:21:58 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Lemmy! Yea! Verily, at 3:54 PM -0800 3/6/03, it was written by Tom Clark that all should kneel low and, cupping their hands behind their ears, reflect momentarily upon these hallowed words, for within them lies the seed of truth: >http://www.theonion.com/onion3908/wdyt_3908.html We've got a dark, loud rock 'n' roll bar here in SF whose motto is "What Would Lemmy Do?" M - -- ======== 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: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:38:22 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: follow-up Ah-ha-ha-ha I used to go to Crossgates Mall all the time! Mem'ries... Yea! Verily, at 12:18 AM -0600 3/7/03, it was written by Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey that all should kneel low and, cupping their hands behind their ears, reflect momentarily upon these hallowed words, for within them lies the seed of truth: >The Great Mall T-Shirt War of 2003 is over - charges dropped >(http://tinyurl.com/70ws). I note this paragraph: "Earl Wells, a spokesman >for the mall owner, defended the guards, saying ... there is a policy of >asking people who display anti-war messages on their clothes to leave." I >wonder if that policy is posted anywhere - and I wonder if, then, pro-war >t-shirts are okay. (Or does "policy" just mean "it's what we did"?) > >(Large photo silkscreened onto shirt of battlefield atrocities; bold print >slogan WAR ROX!!) > >..Jeff > >J e f f r e y N o r m a n >The Architectural Dance Society >www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html >:: sex, drugs, revolt, Eskimos, atheism - -- ======== 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: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 10:44:53 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: for those having a hairy day Thanks, Caroline Being newly bearded, this site is a valuable resource... though I have to say that my beard is definitely temporary, for fear of it taking on a life of its own. At night I hear it plotting to have *me* shaved off, and it keeps snagging bits of food for its own consumption... very worrying... ;0) Matt "what would be the correct term for an irrational fear of beards?" Sewell >From: Caroline Smith >is it friday yet? > >http://members.aol.com/beardguy/ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send instant messages for free with MSN Messenger. Click here to download it now! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:08:33 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Covering (songs) and (your body with offensive garments) UK Rex.Broome wrote: > > Last time I was in London, there were a lot of pubs that prohibited the > wearing of "football colours". Glasgow, too. Since wearing green will get you spat at and/or stabbed to death in the the wrong part of town, one has to be careful. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:02:49 -0000 From: Dr John Halewood Subject: RE: Covering (songs) and (your body with offensive garments) UK > From: Stewart C. Russell [mailto:scruss@sympatico.ca] > Glasgow, too. Since wearing green will get you spat at and/or > stabbed to > death in the the wrong part of town, one has to be careful. I remember arriving in Glasgow for a conference about 10 years ago. As I got off the train I noticed this bloke in front of me, merrily wandering off the train with a 4 pack of beer and a t-shirt with the words "England boys, we are here, f*ck your women, drink your beer" emblazoned upon it. I felt like following him for a while to see just how far he managed to go before getting filled in, but decided to try and find my hotel instead. cheers john ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:04:26 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: for those having a hairy day Matt Sewell wrote: > > "what would be the correct term for an irrational fear of beards?" pogonophobia, of course! Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:01:29 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: for those having a hairy day Quoting "Stewart C. Russell" : Noting Stewart's list name above (there are no jokes in the bible), I feel compelled to point out that I think there is one. I don't have time right now to source it properly, but if I recall, it's at Pentecost, and the disciples are babbling in tongues, and someone says they must be drunk, and the reply is along the lines of, "they can't be drunk - it's only nine in the morning." Okay, not exactly the sort of thing that would encourage a young stand-up's career, but still. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb :: --Batman ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:24:33 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz" Subject: Fwd: More information you need to know. I feel certain that this website will be a valuable resource to someone on this list. http://www.vgg.com/tp/tp_080700_fakeband.html - -- ======== 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: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:06:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Michael E. Kupietz wrote: > I feel certain that this website will be a valuable resource to someone on > this list. > http://www.vgg.com/tp/tp_080700_fakeband.html Bit disappointed that they haven't got Drimble Weed and the Vegetation (a.k.a. Drimble Wedge and the Vegetation) the Peter Cook-Dudley Moore band who played "Living in the Shadow of the Bomb Wah Wah" on "Not only but also" on TV and sang the title song of the film "Bedazzled". BTW, there is a hot list of psychedelic sounds including the 'Bedazzled' record at Remember Balls? Saw them once at Bath YMCA: Denny Laine, Steve Gibbons, Mike Kellie and Trev Burton. They fell apart when Laine got a job with Macca - bad career move, I think. Gibbons and Burton formed the excitingly-named Steve Gibbons Band and Mike Kellie (one of the best drummers of all time) later joined the Only Ones. - - MRG n.p. Ant Corridor to Your Heart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:11:44 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. >http://www.vgg.com/tp/tp_080700_fakeband.html Wow...neat site! I'm definitely bookmarking that one. Eb Random database mischief: The top 25 albums with no vowels in their titles Midnight Oil/10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 The Rolling Stones/12 x 5 Wire/154 Portishead/PNYC Alex Chilton/1970 Queens of the Stone Age/R Swell/41 Kristian Hoffman/& Beat Happening/1983-85 Tortoise/TNT Eugene Chadbourne/LSDC&W The Beach Boys/ 20/20 Super Furry Animals/Mwng Wayne Kramer/LLMF Yes/90125 Nomeansno/0 + 2 = 1 Blur/13 Guadalcanal Diary/2 x 4 Shonen Knife/712 Suzanne Vega/99.9 F Sigur Ros/() P/P Einsturzende Neubaten/2 x 4 Th Faith Healers/L' Public Image Limited/9 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:21:21 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. On Fri, Mar 7, 2003, Eb wrote: > Tortoise/TNT Hmm, I don't know Tortoise, but I'm willing to bet that AC/DC's TNT is a better album. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:25:36 -0500 From: "bibi gellert" Subject: re: nz anti-war songs I was mortified when I saw what had happened to my previous message about "Jackie's Song". Of course I put in carriage returns, but somehow the message lost those when I sent it. I must be formatting my messages incorrectly. I was really sorry that the lyrics got lost in that jumble because the song has something powerful to say about the costs of war. bibi --- bibigellert@earthlink.net--- EarthLink: It's your Internet. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:03:42 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Way-belated discovery I heard the new Delgados album today (wow, good stuff!), and felt reeeeeally dumb for not recognizing this band sooner. What's more, I initially thought this was their second album, but the web tells me it's actually the *fourth*? Any knowledgeable fans here? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:29:28 -0600 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Fw: Covering (songs) and (your body with offensive garments) US Stewart: > Glasgow, too. Since wearing green will get you spat at and/or > stabbed to death in the the wrong part of town, one has to be careful. At a Chicago Bears home playoff game last January, we had an adventurous young man wear a Favre jersey and foam cheesehead into the stands. I give him credit, he stayed on the move and lasted until the third quarter before getting jumped. Michael "we still lost, but it partly redeemed the day" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:28:29 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Eb wrote: > Random database mischief: > The top 25 albums with no vowels in their titles Neat! What others can we think of? - -Rush, 2112 (come on, Eb, you really don't own a copy?) - -Meat Beat Manifesto, 99% - -Cabaret Voltaire, 2x45. (Since it consisted of two 45 rpm 12-inch vinyl discs, some might consider it to be a pair of singles, but conceptually and in terms of the amount of material included, it's an album.) - -Pearl Jam, Vs. - -Smithereens, 11 - -311, 311 - -and who could forget ... Foreigner, 4 - --Chris np: Can, Tago Mago ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:34:46 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Way-belated discovery On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Eb wrote: > I heard the new Delgados album today (wow, good stuff!), and felt > reeeeeally dumb for not recognizing this band sooner. What's more, I > initially thought this was their second album, but the web tells me > it's actually the *fourth*? Yeah. They put out several early singles in the mid-90s that were kind of spunky/spiky pop music; there's a Peel Sessions disc and the first album Domestiques from that period. Then they shifted heavily into the atmospheric vein -- I assume if you like the new one you'd be interested in the previous album The Great Eastern, and maybe in Peloton (#2, not as produced but featuring the swoopy sad songwriting). I like the early stuff and not the later, but I can't say they got worse; just different. aaron ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:34:44 -0800 From: "Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" Subject: RE: Covering (songs) and (your body with offensive garments) US Mike Wells wrote: > Stewart: > > Glasgow, too. Since wearing green will get you spat at and/or > > stabbed to death in the the wrong part of town, one has to be careful. > > At a Chicago Bears home playoff game last January, we had an adventurous > young man wear a Favre jersey and foam cheesehead into the stands. I give > him credit, he stayed on the move and lasted until the third quarter > before getting jumped. Wiat wasn't that an Eagles-Bears game and not a Packers-Bears game? Wow that does take some balls! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:45:14 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. >-Rush, 2112 (come on, Eb, you really don't own a copy?) A lonnnng time ago, I had a homemade tape of it. Back in my early music-fan days, when I was mostly listening to FM rock. I probably taped it off the radio, from one of those shows where they play complete albums back-to-back. There's *still* one of those shows on the local airwaves, but they only play four albums now instead of seven. It was on a Z-quality cassette, and I never bothered to make a better copy when I started fretting more about fidelity. Speaking of Rush, DirecTV's freeview channel just started showing a 1989 Rush concert at regular intervals...wooooooo. All this month, I guess. Joe Benson is a load, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 15:52:57 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. At 04:28 PM 3/7/2003 -0500, Christopher Gross wrote: >On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Eb wrote: > >> Random database mischief: >> The top 25 albums with no vowels in their titles > >Neat! What others can we think of? > >-Rush, 2112 (come on, Eb, you really don't own a copy?) >-Meat Beat Manifesto, 99% >-Cabaret Voltaire, 2x45. (Since it consisted of two 45 rpm 12-inch vinyl >discs, some might consider it to be a pair of singles, but conceptually >and in terms of the amount of material included, it's an album.) >-Pearl Jam, Vs. >-Smithereens, 11 >-311, 311 >-and who could forget ... Foreigner, 4 I object to all these number titles counting! They just didn't spell out the numbers, that's all. Or abbreviations like Vs. (or XTRMNTR, or such, though I think it has a greater claim to vowellessness). A real no-vowel title would resemble certain Balkan surnames. Something like MKRPLZ or HRBNK. where have you gone, Kent Hrbek?, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:58:22 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. On Fri, Mar 7, 2003, Eb wrote: > >-Rush, 2112 (come on, Eb, you really don't own a copy?) > > A lonnnng time ago, I had a homemade tape of it. Back in my early > music-fan days, when I was mostly listening to FM rock. I probably > taped it off the radio, from one of those shows where they play > complete albums back-to-back. There's *still* one of those shows on > the local airwaves, but they only play four albums now instead of > seven. Ah, one really cool thing about 2112 is that the 2112 Overture is indexed, so if you have a CD player that can skip them, you can jump around to all the parts. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:31:09 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Chills live videos Live in the quick time format. http://www.bands.co.nz/script/features/article.asp?body=107 _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:38:09 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Way-belated discovery Aaron Mandel wrote: > > Yeah. They put out several early singles in the > mid-90s yeah, they were pretty happening in Glasgow about 8 years ago. Still enjoyable, in a comfortable-old-sweater kind of a way. > The Great Eastern title is an impossibly funny in-joke if your Glaswegian. Probably not even remotely funny if you are not. Stewart (having to deal with a half-cut boss saying at 3pm that we need two unrelated multi-Kloc codebases merged and working by 5pm ...) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:45:44 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Way-belated discovery on 3/7/03 2:38 PM, Stewart C. Russell at scruss@sympatico.ca wrote: >> The Great Eastern > > title is an impossibly funny in-joke if your Glaswegian. Probably not even > remotely funny if you are not. > > Stewart > > (having to deal with a half-cut boss saying at 3pm that we need two unrelated > multi-Kloc codebases merged and working by 5pm ...) ROTFLMAO!!!! Oh, that's not the in-joke... Sorry, - -tc (having to deal with mysterious Linux interrupt-starving, broken Open Firmware, and a host of crappy Flash and SDL apps built on a poorly architected C++ framework) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:55:51 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Royalties for Robyn Dunno if anyone has noticed/mentioned this, but the Uncle Tupelo catalog is getting a reissue with bonus tracks and whatnot in April. So yes, you can indeed buy more stuff with Jeff Tweedy on it! But perhaps more importantly, the extended version of "Still Feel Gone" includes "I Wanna Destroy You" as a bonus track. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 00:24:41 +0000 From: "" Subject: Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. Quoting Miles Goosens : > I object to all these number titles counting! They just didn't spell out the > numbers, that's all. Or abbreviations like Vs. (or XTRMNTR, or such, though > I think it has a greater claim to vowellessness). > > A real no-vowel title would resemble certain Balkan surnames. Something like > MKRPLZ or HRBNK. Totally agree. Did Styx ever do an eponymous album? I have a feeling that X probably did. Can all those XTC fans come up with anything? Y is always a good bet because people will let you get away with not calling it a vowel, so all those words like hymn, rhythm, fyrd, wyrd and what have you count. And the Welsh use w as a vowel too in words like cwm, a valley. - - Mike Godwin PS The fyrd is a sort of Anglo-Saxon form of conscript army, as opposed to the professional soldiers who are housecarls. Wyrd or weird is like fate IIRC. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:35:06 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: More information you need to know. on 3/7/03 4:24 PM, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk at hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > Y is always a good bet because people will let you get away with not calling > it > a vowel, so all those words like hymn, rhythm, fyrd, wyrd and what have you > count. And the Welsh use w as a vowel too in words like cwm, a valley. All hail Lynyrd Skynyrd!! Looks like they've done one: "Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991" - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:59:43 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: More information you need to know. >on 3/7/03 4:24 PM, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk at hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > >> Y is always a good bet because people will let you get away with not calling >> it >> a vowel, so all those words like hymn, rhythm, fyrd, wyrd and what have you >> count. And the Welsh use w as a vowel too in words like cwm, a valley. > >All hail Lynyrd Skynyrd!! > >Looks like they've done one: "Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991" The y's are vowels, maaaan.... Eb now really hating: Caustic Resin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:24:20 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. Yea! Verily, at 6:06 PM +0000 3/7/03, it was written by Michael R Godwin that all should kneel low and, cupping their hands behind their ears, reflect momentarily upon these hallowed words, for within them lies the seed of truth: >On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Michael E. Kupietz wrote: >> I feel certain that this website will be a valuable resource to someone >>on >> this list. >> >http://www.vgg.com/tp/tp_080700_fakeband.html > >Bit disappointed that they haven't got Drimble Weed and the Vegetation >(a.k.a. Drimble Wedge and the Vegetation) the Peter Cook-Dudley Moore band >who played "Living in the Shadow of the Bomb Wah Wah" on "Not only but >also" on TV and sang the title song of the film "Bedazzled". > They do take submissions... you ought to send it in! Mike - -- ======== 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: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:42:15 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: Fwd: More information you need to know. Mr. Godwin: > Totally agree. Did Styx ever do an eponymous album? I have a feeling that X > probably did. Can all those XTC fans come up with anything? If you buy that y's count, "Styx" (which is actually pretty decent) and "Styx II" accepting the Roman numerals. X never did an eponymous album, IIRC, though to tell you the truth I'm still kind of freaked about that whole Viggo-Exene marriage thing and may be blocking. There's also INXS: "X" (featuring IMO one of their best songs, 'The Stairs'), Xyz: "Xyz" (what the world needs now is another Don Dokken-produced pseudo-metal album) and of course The Heptones: "Mr. T." My award for "not quite but with the best title" goes to the Angry Samoans: "STP Not LSD" Michael "high in the Western Cwm of Everest" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 19:19:15 -0800 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Eat, drink and be merry Hello, I hate to be a bore, but this news item seems important. Hopefully the link to the website still exists by the time this e-mail arrives. I am literally worried sick about the war talk happening but am going off to a party tonight anyway. Dancing my ass off is the plan. "Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington Times that no member of Congress was allowed to read the first Patriot Act that was passed by the House on October 27, 2001. The first Patriot Act was universally decried by civil libertarians and Constitutional scholars from across the political spectrum. William Safire, while writing for the New York Times, described the first Patriot Act's powers by saying that President Bush was seizing dictatorial control. On February 7, 2003 the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan public interest think-tank in DC, revealed the full text of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003. The classified document had been leaked to them by an unnamed source inside the Federal government. The document consisted of a 33-page section by section analysis of the accompanying 87-page bill." Details can be found at this website: www.infowars.com Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 19:22:31 -0800 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: correction: web address Hi, Here's the correct website that I was pointing to in my last e-mail. Stuff about the patriot act and all. www.infowars.com Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:35:03 -0800 From: "The Mammal Brain" Subject: scott m. drops robyn h.'s name . _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 00:32:49 -0800 From: Eb Subject: new band tip The Fruit Bats, releasing an album in April on Sub Pop. Terrible band name, *damn* good album. A great one to play alongside the Kingsbury Manx...acoustic guitars and piano, a gentle ambience and gorgeous male/female harmonies. Practically every melody lures me in...a few of chord changes are just breathtaking. Watch for this one. Eb PS Wednesday's Letterman guest host is Elvis Costello! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #88 *******************************