From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #119 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, March 28 2003 Volume 12 : Number 119 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Who I'd do in Hollywood (minimal horse content) ["Rex.Broome" ] The British connection [Barbara Soutar ] Oh yeah, one more "celebrity" crush... ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: giving the drummer some [Jason Robert Thornton ] Re: Who I'd do in Hollywood (minimal horse content) [Jason Thornton ] Re: Consider me strolloped... [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Oh yeah, one more "celebrity" crush... [Tom Clark ] Just stuff [Tom Clark ] Hits that pack quite a strollop ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: And I wished I could fuck a horse (& other items of note) [Tom Clark ] the ULTIMATE hold-up-your-lighter song [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:38:22 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Who I'd do in Hollywood (minimal horse content) MRG: >>By the end of the year, both Crosby and Clarke had left the group and been >>replaced by a horse (see album cover). Well, whaddaya know-- there's Julia Roberts, right there! Just kidding. Kay, I know what you mean about appreciating the rare non-standard-Hollywood beauty (I did start the Sarandon-mania), but that doesn't mean someone is attractive just *because* they don't fit the trope. And Julia Roberts doesn't do it for me, just physically, either. Still a bit too skinny and also not too interesting personality-wise. But submitted for your approval: Maura Tierney. Janeane Garofalo. Kate Winslet, that's a good one. Ummm, who else do I have a crush on? Amy Wynn Pastor, the carpenter on Trading Spaces. Already mentioned Sarandon, and Julianne Moore. Maybe Jodie Foster? Kate Beckinsale? Alicia Witt? And Margaret from Laika. God, my celebrity-sex wish list is pretty damn weak, huh? I seem to be stuck on the "actually talented" thing. Maybe there's something to that "skin deep" thing, huh? - -Rex, overall quite happy with his real-life lover-girl ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:49:48 -0800 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: stringy females with over-sized mouths >Is it possible that part of Julia Roberts appeal is that woman take to her? Speak for yourself. *shudder* Susan Sarandon, on the other hand, rocks. I just saw "Igby Goes Down" a few weeks ago and she practically stole the show. Great movie... a little too cold and distanced, though. As far as "quirky movies about the wealthy" go, I'm still sticking with "The Royal Tenenbaums." lala, n. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:32:46 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Tucker? I hardly know her! Roberta: >>> "Heard It In a Love Song" >>That was the Marshall Tucker Band but they still play it a lot on the >>classic rock stations here. Anyone notice Corrin Tucker wearing a Marshall Tucker Band t-shirt on the back of the last Sleater-Kinney record? I was a little nonplussed until I put it together with the fact that her son is in fact named Marshall. (I don't think I've ever heard if Tucker is his real last name or not, but that was the closest "celebrity birth" of interest to when my first daughter was born, so I did take note.) _____ Glenn: >> Sarandon lovers take note >>The United Way be dissin' yo girl: It's the new national pastime. I'm surprised by all the love on the list. I have a real suspicion that she gets singled out because she's not only (gasp) female, but also an "older" woman (and oh yeah, unwed mom, although she's had the same partner for longer than most folks are married) speaking her mind, and God knows we can't have that. Cute little dumplings agitating for peace, it's just a naive phase and they'll grow out of it. But mothers should know better. Sigh. Also fat guys, apparently. Michael Moore takes more and harder knocks than Sean Penn. At least he can absorb the blows more easily, har har har. - -Rex "I'd Boycott Pro-War Artists in Retaliation But There Aren't Any" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:38:30 -0800 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: The British connection For anyone interested in a historical view of the British interest in Iraq (formerly called Mesopotamia) there's a very funny series of Real Audio movies at this link: www.channel4.com/news/2003/special_reports/iraq_hard_place.html From the little bit I've watched, it shows that Winston Churchill was gung-ho about dropping poison gas bombs on the godless heathens way back in 1920 or so. The technology just wasn't available at the time, so ordinary bombs were used by the RAF. This explains Tony Blair to me a little bit, because up to now I was baffled about the British involvement in the war. The above link was sent to us from my husband's friend who is part of the Vietnam War Vets for Peace organization. Ham radio leads to meeting a lot of interesting people... Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:49:04 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Oh yeah, one more "celebrity" crush... ...the blonde woman on the Onion's "What Do You Think" page every week. I don't know why, but this one's been really hard to shake. Because she's a complete cypher? Or the eyebrows? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:45:55 -0800 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: Re: giving the drummer some >From: gshell@metronet.com >Subject: Re: giving the drummer some > >On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: >> Sad thing is rather than sharpen his sticks and hurl >>them, the drummer more or less puts up with it. > >and they damn well better. a drummer is worth only as much >as it's key. and drummers always fucking lose their drum >key. and while there is the odd exception (normally >female), drummers are rarely musicians. it's a good thing >percussion is so easy for the rest of us. All joshing aside, this is not the case in my experience. Maybe at an amateur, garage-band level it is, but the generality about drummers at a professional, somewhat-visible-to-the-public level (as in touring bands, *definitely* in session work, and probably orchestras and other musical units) is that what you see and hear them playing on stage is generally *way* beneath their level of skill. (Think, Rod Morganstern in Winger, on sabbatical from the Dregs and just paying the bills. Steve Gadd on Steely Dan's Two Against Nature. Joe Travers touring with Duran Duran. Terry Bozzio in, . . . well, Terry doesn't put up with that shit anymore, I guess.) It's the Percussion Institute effect. I've had this driven home a couple times recently by seeing bands that play music that *does* challenge the drummer, case in point being Tony Levin's band. Jerry Marotta is a *monster*, and besides playing intricate, composed parts that demanded some pretty slick four-point coordination, also acquitted himself on vocals, sax and guitar with aplomb. Yet he's certainly most commonly known as the drummer. da9ve, drooling evenly out of both sides of his mouth, and playing Pro-Mark 707's for nigh on 20 years now. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:23:21 -0800 From: Jason Robert Thornton Subject: Re: giving the drummer some On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 12:45 PM, da9ve stovall wrote: > I've had this driven home a couple times recently by seeing bands > that play music that *does* challenge the drummer, case in point > being Tony Levin's band. Jerry Marotta is a *monster*, and besides > playing intricate, composed parts that demanded some pretty slick > four-point coordination, also acquitted himself on vocals, sax > and guitar with aplomb. Yet he's certainly most commonly known > as the drummer. A friend of mine, Tom Griesgraber, a fellow Stick player, is about to release an album with Jerry Marotta and some keyboardist named Harvey from Chris Botti's band (I forget his last name). Tom and I were brainstorming band-names the other night because the only thing Jerry could come up with, being a drummer, was "Island of Men," which may well be the single worst band-name I've ever heard. - --Jason ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:23:49 -0800 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Re: Who I'd do in Hollywood (minimal horse content) On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Rex.Broome wrote: > God, my celebrity-sex wish list is pretty damn weak, huh? Lucy Liu and Salma Hayek should top any list. And after seeing Monster's Ball, Jason Bob Thornton wouldn't mind giving Halle Berry a shot. Make me feel goooood.... - --Jason ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:35:45 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: such are the dreams of an everyday housewife Another big Hee-Haw SA-LUTE! to Mr. Campbell for introducing me to Jimmy Webb. I'm trying to remember if he ever had anybody hip on his show, but I don't think so (unlike J. Cash). Dave Edmonds Queen of Hearts was years before Newton's, but he didn't write it. I wish they would re-release some of his old stuff circa "Information." Crosby brow-beating Clarke: "EE-go. It's your EE-go." Birdshit calling the pus white. Have I mentioned how the extra footage in the DVD of Monterey Pop confirms my theory of Crosby's bad playing there? His guitar strap has huge "STP" letters on it. After the 1st couple of songs the others barely try to keep up with him. Isn't "One in a Million" by Guns & Roses? I could have named all the rest, but I'm on the digest, and besides, I had a hangnail on my pinky. Ross Taylor Of course, Campbell also did "Universal Soldier." Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:36:26 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Who I'd do in Hollywood (minimal horse content) >But submitted for your approval: Maura Tierney. I think she should marry Benicio Del Toro, and breed an army of descendents who continually look like they're in desperate need of a lonnnnnng nap. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:45:49 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: RE: giving the drummer some Quoting Dr John Halewood : > Thank goodness for drum machines, that's what I say. In my musical > career > (such as it has been) I've had a number of run-ins with drummers. > One turned up for a gig having had several bottles of Merrydown (sweet, > very > alcoholic cider) during the course of the day. A couple of songs into > the > set he lead off one song, and went 'tap tap tap THUD' - he'd fallen off > his > stool (and the back of the stage) and was lying on his back on the > floor, > arms and legs still going. Another one got drunk during a set, resulting > in > me and the bass player doing an impromptu acoustic set whilst he sobered > up > a bit. Unfortunately he ended up in the audience, shouting abuse at us > (I've > still got a recording of this, it's almost worthy of the Troggs tapes). > Finally another drummer turned into a primadonna and would sometimes > refuse > to play because he didn't like the ambience of the place. > What's perhaps more worrying is that two of those drummers were > actually > musicians - one a trombonist and another a very good sax/guitar/bass > player. Alright, drummer jokes are fun...but (a) I'm sure we could tell stories like this of guitarists, bassists, vocalists, keyboard players...hell, about kazooists; and (b) a good drummer is invaluable to a band. Finding a good drummer is, in my experience seeing local bands, the last thing that happens, the last thing whose lack prevents a pretty good band from becoming really good. And this isn't about technique as such (the post re Steve Gadd etc.) but about feel and - yes - musicianship. I didn't mean for this to turn into a "list our favorite drummers" thread - but while not necessarily my favorite, it amazes me that Bill Bruford had a completely distinctive sound and style from the get-go - at age (what) 18 or so on the first Yes album. He's still unmistakeable. ..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_ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:12:13 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Consider me strolloped... Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > >>> "One in a Million" > >>So many songs with this title. Any hints? > > I think it's Alabama: > > "Many's the time someone lay close beside me/And I can't remember her > name... You're the one in a million, you're the one, you're the > one Well see, she heard about the guy's memory problems, and had her name tattoed on her ass so's he'd remember it. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: it's not your meat :: --Mr. Toad ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:21:45 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Oh yeah, one more "celebrity" crush... on 3/28/03 12:49 PM, Rex.Broome at Rex.Broome@preferredmedia.com wrote: > ...the blonde woman on the Onion's "What Do You Think" page every week. I > don't know why, but this one's been really hard to shake. Because she's a > complete cypher? Or the eyebrows? Yeah, but she just seems to go from career to career. I mean, wouldn't that get a bit tiresome? Good call with Kate Winslet. Yummy. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:50:07 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Just stuff on 3/26/03 11:48 PM, Barbara Soutar at bsoutar@horizon.bc.ca wrote: > As for Don Cherry, he's loud in every way: voice, fashion, opinion. A > wacky guy who people love to hate. I didn't know he had fans outside the > country! I don't care what country you're in, you're not a hockey fan if you don't know of Don Cherry. on 3/28/03 1:23 PM, Jason Thornton at jthornton@ucsd.edu wrote: > Lucy Liu and Salma Hayek should top any list. I never really noticed Salma Hayek until recently when she hosted SNL, and then at the Oscars. But, er, um, has she always had such a great rack? To quote Steve Martin in The Man With Two Brains: "Mommmmma". on 3/27/03 9:31 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: > The kitten's name, Sooty, has two Os in it, reminiscent of the Twin > Towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Twin Belltowers of the > Dom, the Cathedral of Cologne, Heidi's home town. > > The letter Y in "Sooty", known as the letter of Pythagoras, is a reminder > of the Pentagon building, the other building attacked on September 11, 2001. > (The five-pointed star is known as the Star of Pythagoras.) > > The Pythagorean Theorem is known to Freemasons as the 47th proposition of > Euclid. Therefore, the name "Sooty" is a reminder of "4711", the company that > produces authentic Eau de Cologne, a company that Heidi's father used to work > for. OK, now he's really reaching. Anybody see the movie "Pi"? This Kansan guy sounds like he needs to head off to the bathroom with a power drill, if you know what I mean. - -tc np - "A Can Of Bees" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:02:34 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Hits that pack quite a strollop Jason B.: >>Come on Rex! "Rhinestone Cowboy" isn't nearly as bad as "Southern Nights". Y'know, "Southern Nights" doesn't bug me much at all. I kinda forget that it's him. "Country Boy", though, I can't get behind that one. Not as bad as "Thank God I'm a Country Boy", but the association dies hard. Okay, who's this one: "Hello Country Bumpkin" ? God, just looked at a list of Juice Newton's hits. Damn. I remember every one of those tunes but had totally forgotten her entire existence until today. Apparently I did hear a lot of pop music as a kid... it's just not the stuff everyone else I know remembers. Weird. Fun posts today. Thanks, kids. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:02:15 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Hits that pack quite a strollop Once upon a time somebody say to me -- this is Rex.Broome talking now -- what is your conceptual continuity? > Okay, who's this one: > "Hello Country Bumpkin" ? Without looking it up, I'm gonna guess Cal Smith, aka Carlene Carter's daddy. > Apparently I did hear a lot of pop music as a kid... it's just not the stuff > everyone else I know remembers. Weird. I wasn't allowed to listen to anything but country and gospel as a kid. And my dad didn't consider the Outlaw stuff country. It was "too progressive". I remember him going off on KNEW's program director once for playing "Lyin' Eyes" by "those goddamn hippies" the Eagles. Yes, my father is Red Foreman. ;) Interestingly, he looks a lot like Gene Watson! - -- Cheers! - -g- "The flowers of intolerance and hatred are blooming kind of early this year, someone's been watering them." --Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:03:13 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Amberson Subject: Re: Hits that pack quite a strollop Rex writ >>> Okay, who's this one: "Hello Country Bumpkin" ? <<< Cal Smith - --Perry "probably should be embarrassed that I know the answer but I'm not" Amberson Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:07:13 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Amberson Subject: Re: Hits that pack quite a strollop >>> Without looking it up, I'm gonna guess Cal Smith, aka Carlene Carter's daddy. <<< Yes and no. Carl Smith is Carlene's daddy, hence her name. Cal Smith was an entire other person. Carl's career peaked in the 50s, Cal's in the 70s. - --Perry "from the state that brought you Hank Williams, Courtney Cox, and Sun Ra" Amberson _______________________________________ Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:19:40 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Hits that pack quite a strollop Once upon a time Perry Amberson say to me -- this is the dog talkin' now -- what is your conceptual continuity? >>>> Without looking it up, I'm gonna guess Cal Smith, > aka Carlene Carter's daddy. <<< > > Yes and no. Carl Smith is Carlene's daddy, hence her > name. Cal Smith was an entire other person. Carl's > career peaked in the 50s, Cal's in the 70s. Thanks. I bet I knew that at one point but thanks to age and deceased brain cells, I guess I've merged the two guys into one. > --Perry "from the state that brought you Hank > Williams, Courtney Cox, and Sun Ra" Amberson Alabama? - -- Cheers! - -g- "[R]emember when you're out there trying to heal the sick that you must always first forgive them." --Bob Dylan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:35:35 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Amberson Subject: Re: Hits that pack quite a strollop Glen, he say this: >>> Alabama? <<< And I say "yes." - --Perry "not to mention Jim Nabors and Nat 'King' Cole" Amberson ______________________________________ Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:47:05 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Let's not get too progressive... >>Without looking it up, I'm gonna guess Cal Smith, aka Carlene Carter's >>daddy. Nailed it once again. Although I see that was a hit in '74 and the one I'm thinking of seems later... "And she said hello, Country Bumpkin/How's the frost out on the pumpkin"... I think she's dead, it's one of those "Bed of Rose's" type things. >>I wasn't allowed to listen to anything but country and gospel as a kid. And >>my dad didn't consider the Outlaw stuff country. It was "too progressive". I >>remember him going off on KNEW's program director once for playing "Lyin' >>Eyes" by "those goddamn hippies" the Eagles. Heh. Good stuff. My dad didn't make much distinction, but the Outlaw stuff stuck with me a lot more. He grew up with country but his band was folk revival, genteel Kingston Trio/Limeliters model, until that went out of fashion, they got a drummer, and he and the other singer literally styled themselves after Waylon & Willie respectively. They did some hippie crap like "Peaceful Easy Feelin'", too. Good Cash medley, though. Here's an example of the lack of ideology... they would often do "Okie from Muscogee" and "Long Haired Country Boy" in the same set, with no (intentional) irony. That reminds me, I need to send a copy of their "collected works" to someone in Bridgeport WV. Ah, the trials of running a severely independent label that's quite literally a family industry. Rex Broome, owner & operator, Minco Records ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:07:21 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: wonderful merchandise/Julia/drummers TGQ replied to me thus: >> According to the Russian government, >> Bush phoned Putin, who said he'd investigated UN rumours that Russian firms >> had supplied arms to Iraq - but the only overseas buyers for those >> particular arms had been (through middlemen) the CIA. > >I may be misunderstanding you, but this doesn't make any sense. The CIA >bought Soviet gear and gave it to the Iraqis? That's a bit hard to swallow. nope. The rumour is that Iraq didn't have any WOMD, but the CIA will plant some to make it look as though they did. >> actually, the person who first raised the issue of this breaching the >> Geneva convention was Iraq's envoy to the UN, who asked all sides to desist >> from the practice. > >Well, other than the rank hypocrisy of the Iraqi government caring about >anything like the Geneva convention, I don't believe this is true. As soon >as the images of the POWs was aired, the US began crying, "foul!" what? They complained about the images of the POWs captured by the British? The day before the US captives were shown by AlJazeera? - --- >>Eb, ever wondering why the Internet is so pathologically fond of >>beating up on Julia Roberts and Gwynneth Paltrow nuttink wrong with Gwyneth, nor Hilary Swank, for that matter. Julia Roberts, however, is bad at acting and unappealing to look at. Not a good combination for a 'movie star'. >>Who in the world is nuts for Julia Roberts based on her *body*? Her >>eyes and smile are the root of all her charisma. > >They just frighten me -- it's like her face is on a hinge and her head is >going to flip back like a SOUTH PARK Canadian. Her brother Eric is >supposed to be the psycho, but Julia's the one who gives me the willies. me too. Vaguely muppet-like face with a frankly frightening smile which seems to fold her face in towards her nose (which doesn't really need much emphasis). - --- You gotta say this about Kansan. The universe he lives in is consistent, even if it's not the same one the rest of us live in. - --- >My favorite drummer jokes: you missed: What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine? A: You only need to punch the information into the drum machine once! 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, 29 Mar 2003 12:07:23 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: And I wished I could fuck a horse (& other items of note) >Indeed. It seems almost every major war fought this century can be traced >back to WWI, including this one.... Damn that Gavrilo Princip! sobering to note a major political assassination in Belgrade around the time the latest conflict started, then... - --- >I agree with Miles that "Chicago" was not as innovative as "Moulin Rouge" >and that it was basicially a Fosse fest. But that second point is precisely >why I enjoyed the movie so much. The first-time director may not have >deserved an Oscar but he knew enough to keep the Fosse influence working. Im >sure there are some dim-wits out there who would have been silly enough to >think they could improve on it. so - anyone here seen "Strictly Ballroom"? It was probably Luhrmann's earliest move in the direction of "Moulin Rouge", and a load of fun, at that. - --- >Is it possible that part of Julia Roberts appeal is that woman take to her? >What I mean is, to females, while she comes off as a very, very pretty us, >she still comes off as an us. Kay, I've seen your photo. You're waaay prettier than Julia Roberts. >Who is Heidi Klum? I keep seeing her name, I dont know who she is or what >she's famous for? she's the controlling force behind the Universe. I thought that would be obvious by now. Seriously, though, I've been wondering the same thing. - --- >By the end of the year, both Crosby and Clarke had left the group and been >replaced by a horse (see album cover). ah, but was it emaciated? - --- >Eddie Rabbit (oops, somebody beat me to it) >The Oak Ridge Boys >The Statler Brothers >Kenny Rogers >Alabama >Ronnie Milsap >Sonny James (perhaps a little more legit than the above?) >Glenn Campbell (SOB could play some mean 12-string, though, and he was a >Beach Boy and all) don't forget: Charlie Daniels C W McCall Jim Croce Bellamy Brothers Dan Fogelberg and, to add a south-of-the-border flavour, Freddy Fender Punk had to happen. James PS - bizarrely, I too find something vaguely likeable about Glen Campbell's (pre-born again) music. "...and the Notts County linesman, is on the touchline..." PPS - talking of country, if US women want a prettier "but still one of us" woman to aspire to, then forget Julia, start thinking Emmylou Harris. One of my favourite 'older women', fer sure. 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, 28 Mar 2003 16:12:05 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: wonderful merchandise/Julia/drummers >Julia >Roberts, however, is bad at acting and unappealing to look at. Not a good >combination for a 'movie star'. Uh-huh. And yet...she's arguably the most popular "movie star" of the Western world, next to Tom Cruise. What does this tell you about your perceptions? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:17:30 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: And I wished I could fuck a horse (& other items of note) on 3/28/03 4:07 PM, James Dignan at grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: >> Who is Heidi Klum? I keep seeing her name, I dont know who she is or what >> she's famous for? > > she's the controlling force behind the Universe. I thought that would be > obvious by now. Seriously, though, I've been wondering the same thing. > http://images.google.com/images?q=Heidi+Klum&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en Supermodel, actress, and if she's been reading Kansan, one extremely worried individual right about now (funk soul brother). > PPS - talking of country, if US women want a prettier "but still one of us" > woman to aspire to, then forget Julia, start thinking Emmylou Harris. One > of my favourite 'older women', fer sure. A classic. - -tc, check it out now ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:08:35 -0800 From: Eb Subject: the ULTIMATE hold-up-your-lighter song AP LOS ANGELES - The rock band Great White plans to perform together for the first time since the band's Feb. 20 concert in Rhode Island resulted in a nightclub fire that killed 99 people. Survivors of the group say they will perform one song at West Hollywood's Key Club on April 29 to raise money for a memorial fund in honor of their late guitarist, Ty Longley, the group's manager, Paul Woolnough, said Friday. The charity concert will benefit the late guitarist's pregnant girlfriend, victim relief funds and students seeking art scholarships. Great White has no other plans to perform again, Woolnough added, although surviving band members may make individual appearances at various other benefits. Other bands in the Key Club lineup include the glam-metal group XYZ and 5 Cent Shine, of which Longley was a former member. Longley, a 31-year-old Ohio native who had lived in Los Angeles for the last five years, was among the dozens who perished at the Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I. Investigators suspect the band's pyrotechnics ignited soundproofing foam. A grand jury is investigating the case. Longley listened to Great White in the late 1980s and idolized guitarist Mark Kendall, said Longley's sister, according to family members. He joined the band about four years ago. Kendall and singer Jack Russell are the only members from the original lineup. The band had recently performed mainly as a nostalgia act at small venues after reaching the peak of its fame with the 1990 hit "Once Bitten, Twice Shy." ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #119 ********************************