From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #122 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 31 2003 Volume 12 : Number 122 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Julia (100% Radiohead) ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Good band with a bad name? [Ken Weingold ] Re: Good band with a bad name? [Eb ] Re: Radiohead - Hail To The Thief [Mike Swedene ] Re: Radiohead - Hail To The Thief ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Good band with a bad name? ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat] Bands, smoes, and spoilers [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Good band with a bad name? [Eb ] Re: The Chinese Connection [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Good band with a bad name? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Drummer relaxes and waits between shows... [HSatterfld@aol.com] Re: such are the dreams of an everyday housewife [Michael R Godwin ] enemies list [] Re: Random thought... [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: enemies list [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: enemies list [Marcy Tanter ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:47:55 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: RE: Julia (100% Radiohead) >From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" >Subject: RE: Julia (100% Radiohead) >Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:41:54 -0800 >I was in a band once called "Orgiastic Bubble Plastic", which is a good >name, but before than it was "The Valuable Feces" (the guitarist was >reading Freud) and I liked us pretty well even then. I was in The Elephantine Agenda and Filet Of Scrod. Max _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:46:20 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Good band with a bad name? On Sun, Mar 30, 2003, Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > Is it possible? Can a band be good but have a bad name? Examples, please. Well there are many opinions that a "bad" name is the death of a possibly great band. Unfortunately one band often brought up is Husker Du. Funny since they are an extremely influential band. And one of my favorites of all time. Two bands I couldn't see going too far because of their names are Anal Cunt and Snatches of Pink. Oh, and the Ass Ponies. AC I never heard, but I guess it was a good move to start going by "AC" instead. Snatches of Pink I don't care, since I have been a pretty big fan of theirs for many years. Ass Ponies I never heard, but if the Afghan Whigs' cover of Mt. Superlove is any indication, I would like them a lot as well. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:52:26 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Good band with a bad name? Is it possible? Can a band be good but have a bad name? Are you kidding? The Olivia Tremor Control Neutral Milk Hotel Of Montreal The Ladybug Transistor Moby Grape The Jazz Butcher Thunderclap Newman The Incredible String Band The United States of America The Geraldine Fibbers Mull Historical Society Tall Dwarfs Crime & the City Solution The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy The Alter Natives The Flaming Lips The Foo Fighters The Flying Burrito Brothers The Smashing Pumpkins The Eels The Blake Babies Ben Folds Five The Blue Aeroplanes The Jean Paul Sartre Experience Screaming Trees The Police Beat Happening Mott the Hoople Roxy Music The Nevada Bachelors Sleater-Kinney Sproton Layer The Beau Brummels American Music Club (oh GAWD, is this name bad!!) The Zombies The Cat Heads The Electric Prunes Bettie Serveert Mazzy Star That Petrol Emotion The Bonzo Dog [Doo-Dah] Band The Monkees Super Furry Animals Television The Flamin Groovies House of Freaks Ultra Vivid Scene The Art Bears The Band The High Llamas Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Let's Active Meat Puppets 10,000 Maniacs Buffalo Tom Buffalo Springfield Creedence Clearwater Revival The Beach Boys and oh yeah...the Beatles (If you want to dispute any of these examples, it probably would be more productive to challenge the "bad name" part, rather than the "good band" part.) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:57:37 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: Radiohead - Hail To The Thief Actually... hail to the thief is a ref to GWB. As per radiohead's websight. Herbie np -> "Ambulance" Blur - --- Maximilian Lang wrote: > >From: steve > >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > >Subject: Re: Radiohead - Hail To The Thief > >Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:03:07 -0600 > > >On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 09:06 PM, Mike > Swedene wrote: > > > >>Radiohead - Hail To The Thief > > > >Is this a reference to you know who? > > > Steve, > > Don't be an Eno. > > Max > > _________________________________________________________________ > Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ===== - --------------------------------------------- Rebuilding my websight: http://www34.brinkster.com/bflomidy/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 02:07:59 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Radiohead - Hail To The Thief >From: Mike Swedene >Reply-To: Mike Swedene >Subject: Re: Radiohead - Hail To The Thief >Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:57:37 -0800 (PST) > >Actually... >hail to the thief is a ref to GWB. >As per radiohead's websight. >--- Maximilian Lang wrote: > > >Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:03:07 -0600 > > >On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 09:06 PM, Mike > > Swedene wrote: > > > > > >>Radiohead - Hail To The Thief > > > > > >Is this a reference to you know who? > > Steve, > > > > Don't be an Eno. Previously a site listed Eno as a traitor for speaking out against the president. Calling him the Commander and thief could be construed as anti Bush and therefore traitorous. Tongue firmly in cheek I was referring to such. Max _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:10:08 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Julia >Because the argument isn't really about these people's acting talent. >It's the broader charge that they don't even have what it takes to be >"movie stars," as far as attractiveness, charisma and the like. To >charge that Roberts doesn't have what it takes for stardom when she >has been essentially the #1 female acting star for over a >decade...obviously absurd. aaah. It all makes sense now. I apologise Eb. Julia Roberts *does* have what it takes to be a movie star. I'd simply assumed that you'd need either some talent or good looks, or possibly both to be a movie star. My fault. However: >Eb (see how desperate the Internet is to dismiss Roberts? ya see?) "The internet" is not keen to dismiss Roberts. However, it seems a large number of people who use the internet don't think she's any good. James PS - I agree that this is a dumb argument, so I'll stop this side of it now. 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: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:29:19 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Julia James sarcastic'ked: >I'd simply assumed that you'd need either some talent or good looks, or >possibly both to be a movie star. My fault. Well, I think you've laid out your argument very clearly: 1) Roberts is talentless and unattractive. 2) One needs to be talented and/or attractive to be a movie star. Ergo, 3) Roberts isn't a movie star. Yup, it's a flawless proof. I can't think of a thing to say which might refute this logic. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:38:39 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Good band with a bad name? On a distant shore, miles from land, stands an ebony Maximilian Lang on ebony sand, a dream at 3/30/03 11:06 PM -0500 in a mist of gray: >>>Radiohead - Hail To The Thief >> >>Is this a reference to you know who? > > >Steve, > >Don't be an Eno. Or a Traino. On a distant shore, miles from land, stands an ebony Ken Weingold on ebony sand, a dream at 3/31/03 12:46 AM -0500 in a mist of gray: >Two bands I couldn't see going too >far because of their names are Anal Cunt and Snatches of Pink. Oh, >and the Ass Ponies. AC I never heard, but I guess it was a good move >to start going by "AC" instead. I've heard Anal Cunt. An old roommate of mine loved them. Speed metal. Or was it death metal? I get them confused. Anyway, some variety of metal-that-makes-you-wish-Black-Sabbath-had-never-been-around-to-start-the-whole-thing, fronted by this like 4' 11" woman who alternately screeches and sings in that growly "demon" voice that 13 year old boys with acne and mullets think is totally cool. On a distant shore, miles from land, stands an ebony Eb on ebony sand, a dream at 3/30/03 9:52 PM -0800 in a mist of gray: >(If you want to dispute any of these examples, it probably would be >more productive to challenge the "bad name" part, rather than the >"good band" part.) Hey, man, "The Nevada Bachelors" is an AWESOME band name! Mike - -- Where is Cheney? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:40:08 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Bands, smoes, and spoilers >Is it possible? Can a band be good but have a bad name? Examples, please. Personally, I think Neutral Milk Hotel's a pretty dumb name. I'd also add Yo La Tengo, Death in Vegas, Radio Massacre International, Teenage Fanclub, Chainsaw Masochist, The Jean Paul Sartre Experience, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Labradford, The Meat Puppets, My Friend the Chocolate Cake, Ocean Colour Scene, You Am I. >> What does smoe stand for (as in smoe.org)? > >I'd be tempted to guess that it's a variation on smof. secret master of Egyptiana. Possible... >actually, it's more of a variation on smou. hmm. Possibly a variant of smew? Or is it like schmo? >End of advertizement. I have to go watch 6 feet under now and see if >Brenda's big news is that she's had Nate's baby....!! PLEASE!!! NO SPOILERS!!! The series doesn't get here for six months!!! 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: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:57:03 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Good band with a bad name? >Hey, man, "The Nevada Bachelors" is an AWESOME band name! Yeah? Is there, uh, some allusion which I'm missing? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:58:48 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: The Chinese Connection - -- "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" is rumored to have mumbled on Samstag, 29. Mdrz 2003 22:22 Uhr -0800 regarding Re: The Chinese Connection: > On a distant shore, miles from land, stands an ebony Eb on ebony sand, a > dream at 3/29/03 12:48 PM -0800 in a mist of gray: >> [Kansan now explains Connie Chung...] > [...snip...] >> On June 30, 2002, my wife Constance "Dina" collapsed and fell to >> the floor. Luckily she revived after a couple of minutes. The next day, > > His wife? I've spent 35 years walking this planet and still haven't got > someone to dance with, yet despite apparently spending all his time doing > this stuff, "Kansan" somehow found someone to agree to spend the rest of > their life with him? Life ain't fair. That's for sure. However, I bet you couldn't stand to be five minutes in a room together with his wife ... so, be careful what you wish for ;-) And didn't you just tell us you had your chance with Dr. Melanie Rosenfeld(?) ??? ;-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 13:48:39 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Schlamassel redux Today's issue of my newspaper Die Tageszeitung (www.taz.de) headlines "Rumsfeld im Schlamassel". That moved me to look it up in my etymological dictionary. According to this, Schlamassel is "probably" derived from Yiddish 'schlemasl, schlimasl'. The literal translation of that is "that which is not good luck". Yiddish 'masel' means "lucky star" and the prefix 'schl' is apparently a negator. Just so you know ... ;-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:14:54 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Good band with a bad name? Eb wrote: > > Mull Historical Society but they're (or at least one of them is) from Mull ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 13:37:30 +0100 (BST) From: crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com Subject: Bizarre gardening accidents... Ronnie Scott drummer joke... Son: Dad, when I grow up I want to be a drummer. Father: Make up your mind, son, you can't do both... Crowbar Joe (who used to be in a band with a drummer called Trevor Neil Thornton, and, yup, he had a customised bass pedal that had TNT on it). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:19:22 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Good band with a bad name? Quoting Eb : > Is it possible? Can a band be good but have a bad name? > The Olivia Tremor Control dunno why, I kinda like this one. But not The Apples in Stereo. > Ben Folds Five I don't think this is particularly bad - except for the "ha-ha very funny" factor that (get this!) there were only three of them. How many bands are in that category? > The Police What's wrong with this? Actually, there was a band of this name in Milwaukee in '77 or '78... > American Music Club (oh GAWD, is this name bad!!) No, it's worse than that. > Television Now wait a minute: that's a great name. Succinct, to the point, common cultural object, not obvious in terms of what you do with both. Plus, the leader's initials match. > and oh yeah...the Beatles Glad someone agrees with me. If not for its familiarity, we'd all have to groan every time we said it. But I've gotta admit: I agree almost completely with the rest of your list (in terms of bad names - I wasn't even paying attention to the "good band" part, so no argument either way there). Okay, then, so what are some names you think are good? ..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 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:23:17 EST From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: Drummer relaxes and waits between shows... "Rex.Broome" said: <> But I only hate Tom Cruise because he's popular. If he spent less time gloating on Entertainment Tonight, I'd be more like "Yeah, that what's his face guy did a good job in Magnolia." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:36:08 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: such are the dreams of an everyday housewife On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, ross taylor wrote: > Dave Edmonds Queen of Hearts was years before Newton's, but he didn't > write it. By Hank Devito, whoever he is. Appears to be a steel guitar player: http://web.ask.com/redir?bpg=http%3a%2f%2fweb.ask.com%2fweb%3fq%3d%2522Hank%2bDevito%2522%26o%3d0&q=%22Hank+Devito%22&u=http%3a%2f%2ftm.wc.ask.com%2fr%3ft%3dan%26s%3da%26uid%3d28a2620568a262056%26sid%3d38a2620568a262056%26qid%3dD5C99F505653AE41A4956928D4AF8E67%26io%3d2%26sv%3dza5cb0dba%26ask%3d%2522Hank%2bDevito%2522%26uip%3d8a262056%26en%3dte%26eo%3d-100%26pt%3dFree%2bMusic%2bDownload%252c%2bMP3%2bMusic%252c%2bMusic%2bChat%252c%2bMusic%2bVideo%252c%2bMusic%2bCD%252c%26ac%3d24%26qs%3d16%26pg%3d1%26u%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fstore.artistdirect.com%2fmusic%2fartist%2fcard%2f0%2c%2c422947%2c00.html&s=a&bu=http%3a%2f%2fstore.artistdirect.com%2fmusic%2fartist%2fcard%2f0%2c%2c422947%2c00.html > 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. Is this extra footage worth seeing? I've seen two different cuts of the film, one of which featured an endless set by the Mamas and Papas (presumably because John Phillips was one of the organisers) and the other which only had a couple of M's & P's songs. I can't remember whether there were any other significant differences. The reputation of the original Byrds plummeted here in the UK after a spectacularly untogether performance on Ready Steady Go. I wonder if it was Crosby who fouled that up? - - Mike Godwin PS I'd still say that "Repeat When Necessary" was the best Edmunds album; 'Get it' and 'Seventh'(?) have their moments too. PPS Wasn't there an oil company called STP? Probably still wondering why there was a sudden upsurge in demand for their propmotional material... n.p. The Rising Sons ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:50:05 -0500 From: "Roberta Cowan" Subject: Re: such are the dreams of an everyday housewife On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, ross taylor wrote: > Dave Edmonds Queen of Hearts was years before Newton's, but he didn't > write it. Then Mike Godwin, today: >By Hank Devito, whoever he is. Appears to be a steel guitar player: I looked this up the other day, out of curiosity and because I like the song, and noticed that he has played with some pretty big names like Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. In fact, he plays pedal steel on Rodney Crowell's own version of Queen of Hearts, which was released in 1980--1 year after Edmunds' version and 1 year before Juice Newton's. I've never heard Crowell's version but I'd like to. You can add all this to the totally useless trivia department...8-) Happy Monday? Roberta ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:51:20 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: such are the dreams of an everyday housewife On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Michael R Godwin wrote: > By Hank Devito, whoever he is. Appears to be a steel guitar player: > http://web.ask.com/redir?bpg=http%3a%2f%2fweb.ask.com%2fweb%3fq%3d%2522Hank%2bDevito%2522%26o%3d0&q=%22Hank+Devito%22&u=http%3a%2f%2ftm.wc.ask.com%2fr%3ft%3dan%26s%3da%26uid%3d28a2620568a262056%26sid%3d38a2620568a262056%26qid%3dD5C99F505653AE41A4956928D4A Alright, I have no idea why places generate such absurdly complex URLs - but you all hsould know about tinyurl.com: go there, paste an unwieldy URL into the box, and it generates an eight-character or so URL to replace the impossible one. It's permanent (as permanent as tinyurl.com anyway), it works for anyone, and it makes such links a hell of a lot easier to follow. There. Now if only they'd send me that Porsche for promotional services. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous...got me? __Captain Beefheart__ np: David Bowie _Pin-Ups_ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:58:01 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Amberson Subject: Re: such are the dreams of an everyday housewife Actually, Dave Edmunds' 'Repeat When Necessary' was released in 1979. It was recorded simultaneously with that year's other Rockpile album, Nick Lowe's 'Labour of Lust.' - --Perry (who was lucky enough to see Rockpile live that year) _________________________________________________ Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:17:40 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Good band with a bad name? On a distant shore, miles from land, stands an ebony Eb on ebony sand, a dream at 3/30/03 11:57 PM -0800 in a mist of gray: >>Hey, man, "The Nevada Bachelors" is an AWESOME band name! > >Yeah? Is there, uh, some allusion which I'm missing? Nope, just plain vanilla sarcasm. Mike - -- Where is Cheney? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:37:42 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: The Chinese Connection On a distant shore, miles from land, stands an ebony Sebastian Hagedorn on ebony sand, a dream at 3/31/03 11:58 AM +0200 in a mist of gray: >> His wife? I've spent 35 years walking this planet and still haven't got >> someone to dance with, yet despite apparently spending all his time doing >> this stuff, "Kansan" somehow found someone to agree to spend the rest of >> their life with him? Life ain't fair. > >That's for sure. > >However, I bet you couldn't stand to be five minutes in a room together >with his wife ... so, be careful what you wish for ;-) > >And didn't you just tell us you had your chance with Dr. Melanie >Rosenfeld(?) ??? ;-) Heh. Actually, this topic has come up a few times in the last few days - I just found out last night that my kid sister is engaged. I mentioned my comments on the "Kansan" thread to her, and she said something similar, about an ex who once proposed to me. Dig this. It was a few years ago, I had dated this girl off and on for 2 years, and were having one of those talks where you're trying to convince her you should just be friends, and she's trying to convince you to, like, live together. Ever have one of those? Really, two totally different wavelengths. Here's how the conversation went: Her: "I don't know what you mean by wanting to be 'friends'." Me: "Well, it means I love you, and I feel like we have a lot to learn from each other and could grow together - just like I feel about *all* my friends." Her: "Well, it sounds like we're saying the same thing, except, I want a commitment." Me: "Commitment. What does that mean?" Her: "Well, exactly what you just said, except, and I don't mean right away, but, someday... I'd like to have a family." For two years, I knew that was coming. I grit my teeth, and... Me: "Carrie... you and I... are never going to do that." Her: [pause] "Why are you being so negative?" That just floored me. I wonder if it's too late to call Melanie. Mike - -- Where is Cheney? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:42:29 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: such are the dreams of an everyday housewife On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Perry Amberson wrote: > Actually, Dave Edmunds' 'Repeat When Necessary' was released in 1979. > It was recorded simultaneously with that year's other Rockpile album, > Nick Lowe's 'Labour of Lust.' > --Perry (who was lucky enough to see Rockpile live > that year) What a great band, eh? And what a fantastic live mix. I had never heard a band get their live sound quite faultless before hearing Rockpile, and only a few times since. Maybe every bass-player should use an 8-string? Funny that the Rockpile album wasn't as good as either of the solo records. Still, it did enable them to get a bit more mileage out of 'Heart of the city'. And after all this drummerist dialogue, I have to say that Terry Williams is absolument merde-chaud. However, I can't say that I'm too keen on those later Jeff Lynne-produced Edmunds tracks ("Steel Claw" et al) ... - - Mike Godwin PS to JeFFrey et al: profuse apols re invasion of the giant URL. And thanks to Roberta for Hank Devito trivia! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:13:33 -0600 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: such are the dreams of an everyday housewife > However, I can't say that I'm too keen on those later Jeff Lynne-produced > Edmunds tracks ("Steel Claw" et al) ... Cmon, you've got to admit "Slipping Away" was just a little bit catchy :) Though his site is currently down, Dave is on a US tour double-billing with Marshall Crenshaw - in Chicago next week, which I'll be missing for Leo Kottke in Madison instead. I see also Jason Lowenstein from Sebadoh is doing some solo gigs, hmmm. Michael "how about The Soft Boys for a silly name? Oh, wait a minute..." Wells ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:21:27 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Russian help Help! Can anyone out there tell me what the Russian words "obuzdat'" and "zarvavshiy" mean in English? Like, within the next 15 minutes? I'm trying to translate an old Pravda headline for a friend's history lecture, I don't have a dictionary, and I can't make any online Russian dictionaries work (probably because of the alphabet difference). Thanks! - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:27:15 -0000 From: Subject: enemies list > >http://www.probush.com/arifanclub.htm > > I wonder what Jim Jarmusch did to get on that list? I could guess; hell, he's an _artist_, they're always dangerous. A more puzzling question -- _why_ is Casey Kasem up there? What about Fred Durst? I shake my head in disbelief. So far this semester, I've had one student get called up (about 6 weeks ago), one whose husband was called up this weekend, and other Iraqi expat whose family lives near Basra, and as of right now, he's got no idea if his family's alive or dead. Fabbo times we're living in. What was that quote from Juvenal that was going around last year sometime? "When boys toss rocks at frogs, they do so in jest, but the frogs die in earnest." Not feeling all that funny today. Marshall ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:10:26 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Random thought... steve wrote: > Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer, Ein News Channel - Fox News! You know, after the pissy mood I've been in the past couple days with being sick as a dog and a few other things, I really, really needed to see that! ===== "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." -- F.M. Cornford "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt . Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:26:20 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: enemies list mojo@rice.edu wrote: > > >http://www.probush.com/arifanclub.htm > > > > I wonder what Jim Jarmusch did to get on that list? > > I could guess; hell, he's an _artist_, they're always > dangerous. A more puzzling question -- _why_ is Casey Kasem up > there? He's an Arab American and has been very outspoken in the past about the consistant depiction of Arabs and Arab Americans in the media solely as terrorists or store clerks, etc. > What about Fred Durst? Probably for his comments at the Grammys where he cleverly mocked W's lack of familiarity with the English language was hoping everyone was in "agreeance" that the war should go away. Or something like that. > I shake my head in disbelief. > So far this semester, I've had one student get called up > (about 6 weeks ago), one whose husband was called up this > weekend, and other Iraqi expat whose family lives near Basra, > and as of right now, he's got no idea if his family's alive or > dead. Fabbo times we're living in. > What was that quote from Juvenal that was going around last > year sometime? "When boys toss rocks at frogs, they do so in > jest, but the frogs die in earnest." > Not feeling all that funny today. > > Marshall ===== "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." -- F.M. Cornford "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt . Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:33:35 -0600 From: Marcy Tanter Subject: Re: enemies list Quote from the web site: All emails sent to ProBush.com are monitored by the U.S. Government why? because they're afraid we're all going to come after them or something?? this is almost bordering on paranoia.... 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