From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #132 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, April 7 2003 Volume 12 : Number 132 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The Radiohead ablum [Aaron Mandel ] RE: The Radiohead album ["FS Thomas" ] Re: great dominions [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Johnny Bravo!!!! [Michael R Godwin ] Fwd: Re: Johnny Bravo!!!! [Jeffrey Norman ] Suddenly she asked for my sweater [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Suddenly she asked for my sweater [bayard ] Re: Suddenly she asked for my sweater ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Dave Gilmour on Radio 4 ["Rob" ] Maryland & Truck Driver's Gear Change (0%RH) [mary ] Re: constant Fibonaccis ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Suddenly Iggy asked for my Donavon's sweater to cover Monroe's corpse ["K] Re: Down with Pavement (minor RH content) [Tom Clark ] The big guns [Barbara Soutar ] RE: Interesting, but not surprising (5% Zeppelin) ["Rex.Broome" ] Endless compilations... [Glen Uber ] Re: The big guns [Mike Swedene ] Fiction Plane (0% RH) [Mike Swedene ] reap (12:40 pm) [Eb ] RE: Endless compilations... ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: reap (12:40 pm) [brian@lazerlove5.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 00:04:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: The Radiohead ablum On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Or at least, they're not going to be how the album turns out when it's > released. What are the odds that someone, somewhere, is very busily > remixing even as I write ... Well, there were serious sound-level problems in some of the files, and the album got substantially less interesting in the second half. So I don't find it hard to believe it really was an unfinished version... a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 00:24:37 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: The Radiohead album > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf > Of Aaron Mandel > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 12:05 AM > To: Stewart C. Russell > Cc: This Group Tastes Like Burning > Subject: Re: The Radiohead ablum > > On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > > Or at least, they're not going to be how the album turns out when it's > > released. What are the odds that someone, somewhere, is very busily > > remixing even as I write ... > > Well, there were serious sound-level problems in some of the files, and > the album got substantially less interesting in the second half. So I > don't find it hard to believe it really was an unfinished version... I don't find it incredibly unlistenable. Another more polished disc would be fine with me. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:40:47 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: great dominions The Blatzman howled in dismay: >OH MY GAWWWWWWWWDDDDDDDD.... you performed the Great Dominions???? POSSIBLY >THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME????? I am soooo jealous!!!!!! Not fair!!! I >wish I wish I wish.... I've dreamed of doing that one live... Hell, as the >singer, I carried very little authority and could never get a cover done that >I wanted to do... And head hang low.. Wow, another one of my favorite Cope >songs... Sadly, neither was ever recorded. But if you have a copy of the inestimable Mr T. Marks's "Gloss Fish" tapes, then the last track on them is "Sting in the scorpion's tail", my band's most Teardrops-like original. It should give you a rough idea what they would have sounded like. 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: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 13:02:16 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Johnny Bravo!!!! On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, noam tchotchke wrote: > one time at band camp, Michael R Godwin said: > >But my most > >memorable group name was in 1974: Laurie Van Truck and the Automobiles... > > you missed a great opportunity there: you could have been laurie van truck > and the lorries! Perhaps I should explain that "Laurie" is pronounced "Lorry" in England. Magic Band tonight! Wheee! - - Mike n.p. Dust Sucker ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 07:53:06 -0500 From: Jeffrey Norman Subject: Fwd: Re: Johnny Bravo!!!! Quoting Michael R Godwin : > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, noam tchotchke wrote: > > one time at band camp, Michael R Godwin said: > > >But my most > > >memorable group name was in 1974: Laurie Van Truck and the > Automobiles... > > > > you missed a great opportunity there: you could have been laurie van > truck > > and the lorries! > > Perhaps I should explain that "Laurie" is pronounced "Lorry" in England. Uh, but...I think that was the point of the original joke. Actually, "Laurie" is pronounced the same as "lorry" here in Wisconsin too - frankly, I'm not sure how the two words would be pronounced differently. Then (as another list was recently discussing), I've never heard anyone here differentiate among "merry," "Mary," and "marry" (or "Erin" and "Aaron")...so apparently we Wisconsinites have a limited vowel stock. ..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 np: me pissing and moaning about the goddamned snow and generally February-like weather...although that, too, is typical of Wisconsinn ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:44:31 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Suddenly she asked for my sweater On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Actually, "Laurie" is pronounced the same as "lorry" here in Wisconsin too - > frankly, I'm not sure how the two words would be pronounced differently. > Then (as another list was recently discussing), I've never heard anyone here > differentiate among "merry," "Mary," and "marry" (or "Erin" and > "Aaron")...so apparently we Wisconsinites have a limited vowel stock. In that record which includes the unforgettable line "a strange force drew me to the graveyard", the pronunciation of 'Laurie' sound like "Law-ree" (or possibly "Lah-ree") to me. This reminds me that I read an annoyed letter the other day claiming that Brits pronounce 'Maryland' as 'Merryland'. I've never heard anyone do this - - Mary is always pronounced to rhyme with 'dairy' AFAIK. But you're saying that you don't differentiate between the two. Does anyone here think that the Std. Eng. or Wisconsin pronunciations sound like 'Merryland'? - - Mike Godwin PS to Barbara: I'm with you - Donovan si, Iggy no! n.p. Lalena ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:56:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Suddenly she asked for my sweater On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Michael R Godwin wrote: > This reminds me that I read an annoyed letter the other day claiming that > Brits pronounce 'Maryland' as 'Merryland'. I've never heard anyone do this > - Mary is always pronounced to rhyme with 'dairy' AFAIK. But you're saying > that you don't differentiate between the two. Does anyone here think that > the Std. Eng. or Wisconsin pronunciations sound like 'Merryland'? Well, too bad this keyboard can't produce IPA (either one: the alphabet or the ale...), but: The state gets pronounced more or less like the name "Marilyn" only w/a light "d" sound at the end, so...no. I gather that the vowel in "merry" is closer to a short "e" while that of "Mary" is closer to a long "a"... (Of course, natives may pronounce it differently: the city I live in has two (and a half?) syllables in local pronunciation: "M'waukee" (same with the state: "W'sconsin" - --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 ::Solipsism is its own reward:: __Crow T. Robot__ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 10:08:44 -0400 From: noam tchotchke Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Johnny Bravo!!!! one time at band camp, Jeffrey Norman said: >Quoting Michael R Godwin : > > Perhaps I should explain that "Laurie" is pronounced "Lorry" in England. > >Uh, but...I think that was the point of the original joke. lame as it was, yes. (and, yes mike, i knew how laurie is pronounced.) >Actually, "Laurie" is pronounced the same as "lorry" here in Wisconsin too - >frankly, I'm not sure how the two words would be pronounced differently. i don't know the correct terms, but i've heard 'laurie' being pronounced with two different vowel sounds. one of them being the 'o' in lorry and the other being the 'a' in are. though the former is more common -- and natural to my ears -- though. woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 07:46:18 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: Re: Suddenly she asked for my sweater > This reminds me that I read an annoyed letter the other day claiming that > Brits pronounce 'Maryland' as 'Merryland'. I've never heard anyone do this > - Mary is always pronounced to rhyme with 'dairy' AFAIK. I've heard Robyn pronounce it as Merry-land, but more recently I've also heard him pronounce it correctly. JeFFrey is right that it's correctly pronounced Marilyn(d). RH also likes the term Delmarva, an older term which refers to the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia peninsula. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:23:22 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Suddenly she asked for my sweater bayard wrote: > > JeFFrey is right that it's correctly > pronounced Marilyn(d). and no-one in MD has ever heard of the rather passe UK pub grub "Chicken Maryland". Probably just as well, as: a) it's nasty; fried pineapple, anyone? b) even the grubbiest fried chicken house in SoWeBo does it better than any UK pub. Stewart (mmm, Baltimore ... home-made cinnamon rolls the size of your head.) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:36:10 -0400 From: noam tchotchke Subject: more robyn in spain just got word that robyn will be returning to spain later this month. apparently, he'll be at the playa club in la coruna on april 30th. i don't know if there are any other shows planned at this time, though one would think that would be the case. thanks to oscar for the head's up on this. also thanks to oscar for a scan of the leon (5 april) setlist which you can spy with your little eye at . he did not play all that was listed and did a couple that aren't there -- i'm working on getting a complete list. woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 17:48:30 +0100 From: "Rob" Subject: Dave Gilmour on Radio 4 For those who might be interested, Dave Gilmour was the guest on Desert Island Discs this week. Write up at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs.shtml No listen again feature for this program, but it's repeated on Friday 11th April at 9am BST (08:00 GMT). Rob Off to see The Coral tonight :-) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:55:48 -0400 From: mary Subject: Maryland & Truck Driver's Gear Change (0%RH) As a native Marylander I felt that I must chime in on this. Bayard is correct, we all say Marilyn(d). Some folks drop both the "i" and "d" and say "Mare-lin." And yes, most British folks (or the ones that I know) do say Merryland. >and no-one in MD has ever heard of the rather passe UK pub grub "Chicken >Maryland". Probably just as well, as: > >a) it's nasty; fried pineapple, anyone? > >b) even the grubbiest fried chicken house in SoWeBo does it better than >any UK pub. As for "Chicken Maryland" I've never heard of this but there is "Maryland Fried Chicken" which is just pan-fried chicken with gravy - no pineapple involved. This dish is usually served with mashed potatoes and fried corn fritters for lovely cholesterol-laden, artery-clogging meal. One of my favourite things from Maryland is Old Bay Seasoning. Everyone should have a tin in their home. Different topic: From Memepool (www.memepool.com), I followed a link to site about "Truck Driver's Gear Changes." I've never heard of this term before. I thought with all the feg's extensive knowledge of music, surely someone can add to the list that's posted. http://www.gearchange.org/index.asp Enjoy! s.Mary ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:28:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: constant Fibonaccis > From: "da9ve stovall" > > YES! Do you have both "versions" - Casablanca Moon and Acnalbasac > Noom? Hmm, I didn't even know there were two versions. I just have the "Casablanca Moon" CD. Discussing Slapp Happy reminds me that I need to pick up those Art Bears albums. > >* Fibonacci's "Civilization and Its Discotheques" -- ironic, > > I have a CD-R transfer from a friend's vinyl of this - I think the Fibonaccis are a love 'em or hate 'em kinda band. I loved them after the first note, but they are one of the few bands which make the phone ring whenever I played them on the radio. I remember one guy telling me nicely that they were the worst band he'd ever heard. But I love "Civilization and Its Discotheques" from beginning to end; it's more coherent then their previous, scant output. If you ever see the Fibonaccis compilation CD, "Repressed," it's a good purchase. . Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:39:06 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Take me home....country roads At 01:34 AM 4/5/2003 +0100, crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com wrote: >Rex rote - > >And hey, that chick *from West Virginia* that got rescued in Iraq last night >was kinda cute. And her brother wasn't *too* toothless and inbred. The >state-image turnaround continues... > >Sorry Rex, but I was slapping my britches and shouting 'Hot Diggity Dawg' >when I saw the interview with the parents. These things are relative I >suppose - and, remember, I'm a smug, sneering Twickenham pacifist wanker... I hate that damn song, not just because of John Denver, but because the specific geographical features mentioned in the song ("Shenandoah River... Blue Ridge Mountains...") aren't even in West Viriginia. Didn't stop the state legislature from making it an official state song, though. later, Miles "if it's north of the Kanawha, it might as well be Pennsylvania, Ohio, or Maryland" Goosens ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:47:59 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Down with Air Supply Blatzy: >> Hell, as the singer, I carried very little authority and could never get a cover >>done that I wanted to do... This was sadly true. Same for the guitarists unless the bass player agreed. In fact for some reason only the bass player really had overwhelming power in that band. Weird. ______ Tom C: >>Just like I've seen albums by that asshole Russell Hitchcock from Air >>Supply. Wow. I've seen those, too, but had no idea of the Air Supply connection. Ya learn something new every day. ___________ Jason Thorton: >>To elaborate, David Bowie and Iggy Pop collaborated not only on that song, >>but on two Iggy Pop albums in the 70s, "The Idiot" and "Lust for Life," Thought I'd recommend those as the only really essential Iggy solo records; the best-of "Nude & Rude" does a good job of filling in the blanks. This may not be a popular (pun unintended but for some reason undeleted) opinion, but I'll stand by it. ____ C-Joe on West Virginia's own Jessica Lynch: >>Sorry Rex, but I was slapping my britches and shouting 'Hot Diggity Dawg' >>when I saw the interview with the parents. Yeah, it got worse... I had only seen her brother when I wrote that and rated him "medium yokel". The extended family... ah, well. I expected no less. >>These things are relative I suppose I'm shocked that the word "relative" didn't lead naturally into a "married your cousin" riff. I thank you for your restraint. ____ James: >>A bit like the wonderful Beach Boys double best of I have which has >>40 tracks of which over 20 are essentials, and which contained all their >>big songs - except Surfin' safari. Sadder still, it did have the >>gut-churning warblings of Kokomo and Still cruisin'. Kokomo, god damn. You really get stuck with that one more than you'd like. If I have to have a song by the latter-day BB's tacked onto the end of my compilation. I'd rather it be the weird version of "California Dreamin'" with the purty Roger McGuinn guitar bit. Sounds better than the flute on the bridge, until it turns into a ghastly mellow saxophone which sounds... um... not quite as good as the flute, shall we say. My actual strongest complaint about the endless Beach Boys comps is that, while "Endless Summer" has become obsolete and was oddly selected/sequenced to begin with, it somehow added "Girl Don't Tell Me" to the canon of classics, and then that track has never resurfaced on any subsequent best-of. Not that it's great, but ever since Fuzzy did their cover of it, I've longed for that little corner of the "Endless Summer" eight-track with which I grew up. ______ Finally got around to listening to "Down With Wilco" this weekend, and rather liked it. I guess now that there's a song called "The Days of Wine and Booze", I can scratch the title "Days of Wine and Wine" off the list of titles I'm gonna fit songs to some day (no great loss). "Loose Fur" was next in the cue but I didn't get to it. Folding laundry and entertaining a 2-year-old only leaves so much attention left over to devote to critical listening. Anyhow, speaking of the Beach Boys, yup, that "Pet Sounds" snare roll predictably appears before the first song is half finished (and lookee here, Sean O'Hagan's on the guest list-- shock and awe). And speaking of McGuinn, Pete Buck actually plays his 12-string inna Byrds stylee to a greater degree than I've ever heard on a few tracks (endless Buck/McGuinn comparisons aside, I've listened to both players too much to hear much actual similarity, but here it is). And I do hear Wilco, but I also hear the Posies at least as strongly when they do the backing vocals. The album's title, therefore, stands as either a weird marketing tool or an even weirder joke. And speaking of Hee Haw, I also cracked into a fairly entertaining Roy Clark compilation while I was at it. Rex, neither currently pickin' nor grinnin' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 18:02:54 +0000 From: "K L N W" Subject: Suddenly Iggy asked for my Donavon's sweater to cover Monroe's corpse Godwin: >This reminds me that I read an annoyed letter the other day claiming >thatBrits pronounce 'Maryland' as 'Merryland'. I've never heard anyone >do >this- Mary is always pronounced to rhyme with 'dairy' AFAIK. But you're >saying that you don't differentiate between the two. Does anyone >here >think that the Std. Eng. or Wisconsin pronunciations sound like >'Merryland'? I lazy-mouthly call the state "Merelyn," or what Stewart, Jeff and Bayard said. I also say Laurie and lorry the same. What I've always wished is that that Laurie would come back into fashion as a male name (short for Lawrence.) Too much of childhood spent reading the full series of Alcott books may be to blame for that one. And perhaps also to blame for the more Donovan and less Iggy thing preduidice. I have found that while on rare occassion Iggy is essential, alittle goes a long way. Theres a sameness that soon satiates(dodge and run.) Not that theres alot of range in Donavon either, thou if I remember correctly melodically it was alot more interesting. Kay _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:34:26 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Down with Pavement (minor RH content) on 4/7/03 10:47 AM, Rex.Broome at Rex.Broome@preferredmedia.com wrote: > Finally got around to listening to "Down With Wilco" this weekend, and > rather liked it. > > And I do hear Wilco, but I also hear the > Posies at least as strongly when they do the backing vocals. The album's > title, therefore, stands as either a weird marketing tool or an even weirder > joke. After two listens I have to say it's growing in me. I kind of expected a little more rockin' and less croonin' (no "Ghost Tarts of Stockholm" here), but it's got a nice feel to it. Tweedy's "Family Gardener" is pleasantly embedded in my head and I'm sure my co-workers are sick of my whistling it at random. I've also been in love with Stephen Malkmus' new one. It's got a sufficient amount of guitar noodling, and sufficiently weird lyrics - two things I've always loved about Robyn's more upbeat stuff. I'm no E. Broome, but I give it an A. - -tc, hungry. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:36:23 -0700 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: The big guns The way Bush's government is behaving, abandoning the UN, reminds me of the old cowboy TV show slogan: HAVE GUN. WILL TRAVEL. Today's diplomatic Blair/Bush meeting in Ireland is supposed to be a veiled threat to the warring factions there I suppose? My daughter asked me if the States would attack Canada if it got mad at us. I replied that it was unlikely. But I couldn't give her a definite answer. Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:59:22 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: RE: Interesting, but not surprising (5% Zeppelin) Stewart: > RIAA's 100 top selling albums: > http://www.riaa.com/Gold-Best-5.cfm >>how surprised would anyone be if I said I didn't have any of them? ;-) Not wildly so. Let's see... first off, what a bunch of dicks for not actually listing the numerical ranking. Second, umm, I think there are 102 records listed here. But I have only the following 10: #7 Beatles (White Album) #16 Beatles 67-70 (a redundant compilation I got as a gift, so why not keep it? #23 Beatles 62-66 (ibid.) #33 Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits (another redundant comp) #35 Beatles/Abbey Road #47 Rolling Stones/Hot Rocks (redundant... note developing pattern) #56 Beatles/Sgt. Pepper's etc. #78 Nirvana/Nevermind (aka Neverlistentoit) #83 U2/Joshua Tree #99 Beastie Boys/Licensed to Ill (used-bin pickup because I had all their other records, so what the hell) As far as the rest are concerned, I count 76 that I cannot imaging owning under any circumstances whatsoever. Speaking of things with 100 components about which we shouldn't care, did anyone else take Entertainment Weekly's "Pop Quiz"? I ask because I did, and came out with the truly alarming score of 81/100, one question over the dividing line into the highest scoring category, Pop Culture Savant. Oh, the shame. - -Rex, Pop Culture Savant, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe, Virtuoso of Love ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 18:52:39 +0000 From: "K L N W" Subject: Re: The big guns Barbra wrote: My daughter asked me if the States >would attack Canada if it got mad at us. I replied that it was unlikely. >But I couldn't give her a definite answer. Interesting. But in order to invade we(used to mean a minority of United States voters who somehow get counted as a majority) would first have to be convinced you were Ee-villl. I see a good comedy routine here ... Bushwack trying to sell Americans on the Ee-villlness of perfidious Canada. Id pay to hear that, Kay _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:53:45 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Endless compilations... Once upon a time Rex.Broome say to me -- this is the dog talkin' now -- what is your conceptual continuity? > My actual strongest complaint about the endless Beach Boys comps is that, > while "Endless Summer" has become obsolete and was oddly selected/sequenced > to begin with, it somehow added "Girl Don't Tell Me" to the canon of > classics, and then that track has never resurfaced on any subsequent > best-of. Not that it's great, but ever since Fuzzy did their cover of it, > I've longed for that little corner of the "Endless Summer" eight-track with > which I grew up. My strongest complaint with most Beach Boys' comps is that none of them, to my knowledge, contain the brilliant "shouldabeenahit" "Sail On Sailor". That song rules! Sadly, most of the early 70s Beach Boys stuff is ignored and/or downright dismissed. IMO, the songs on Carl & the Passions/so Tough and Holland was some of the finest music they ever made ("Magic Transistor Radio" notwithstanding). I would be remiss if I didn't mention that both albums featured significant contributions from both Blondie Chaplin and Rikki "Stig O'Hara" Fataar. Great stuff. Too bad no one remembers it. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Half the world's starving and have the world bloats; half the world sits on the other and gloats." --Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:32:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: The big guns - --- K L N W wrote: > Barbra wrote: > My daughter asked me if the States > >would attack Canada if it got mad at us. I replied > that it was unlikely. > >But I couldn't give her a definite answer. > > Interesting. But in order to invade we(used to mean > a minority of United > States voters who somehow get counted as a majority) > would first have to be > convinced you were Ee-villl. I see a good comedy > routine here ... Bushwack > trying to sell Americans on the Ee-villlness of > perfidious Canada. This would make a great movie.... we could get John candy in it, have Mike Moore direct it (since he loves Canada so much) and call it..... ummm.... Canadian Bacon! ****end sarcasm, back to homework**** Herbie np ->Incessant beeping of fax machine since "film is out" ===== - --------------------------------------------- Rebuilding my websight: http://www34.brinkster.com/bflomidy/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:37:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Fiction Plane (0% RH) Went and saw FICTION PLANE yesterday in Buffalo. $7 not too shabby. A lot of fun to watch as they really enjoy playing together. For those of you who are not sure who they are, the lead singer is Joe Sumner (Sting's Son from his first wife). The band is very approachable and friendly. I know they are in Toronto on Tuesday @ the Horseshoe. http://www.fictionplane.com/Default.asp?UserID=NONE Herbie ===== - --------------------------------------------- Rebuilding my websight: http://www34.brinkster.com/bflomidy/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:45:43 -0700 From: Eb Subject: reap (12:40 pm) My father. ............ Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:54:41 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: RE: Endless compilations... >>My strongest complaint with most Beach Boys' comps is that none of them, to >>my knowledge, contain the brilliant "shouldabeenahit" "Sail On Sailor". That >>song rules! That's on the boxed set, which is fairly cool (although it gots "Kokomo" again... grrrr...) but the "Surf's Up" album is worth having anyhow. I have it as a twofer with "Sunflower"... pleasant listening throughout. >>Sadly, most of the early 70s Beach Boys stuff is ignored and/or downright >>dismissed. Not by Saint Etienne, who issued both an album called "So Tough" and an odd-and-sods compilation titled "You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone"... >>IMO, the songs on Carl & the Passions/so Tough and Holland was >>some of the finest music they ever made ("Magic Transistor Radio" >>notwithstanding). I would be remiss if I didn't mention that both albums >>featured significant contributions from both Blondie Chaplin and Rikki "Stig >>O'Hara" Fataar. Actually, this is the best part of the boxed set. It leaps pretty much straight from as good a smorgasbord of "Smile" sessions as you could hope for, and right into a filler-free distillation of that whole period. It's intense and kind of languid all at the same time, a great single disc (Disc 3, I believe)... nary a hit, yet nary a dud. The semi-reconstituted Brother Records put out this thing a few years back... http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=3:25:31|PM&sql=Aci2m962ohep8 ..."Volume 3" of what I dunno; I guess you can pick any number of Vols. 1 & 2 to attach it to. The twofers from this period are probably a better bet, though-- note that the two albums you mentioned, "Carl" and "Holland" are packaged together now. I'll probably end up with that one eventually. - -Rex np. NPR report ironically containing a note that US toops are blaring songs by the Stones and, yeah, the Beach Boys, to intimidate Iraquis at tenuously-held positions. So I guess at least someone has a use for "Komomo"... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 15:53:46 +0000 (GMT) From: brian@lazerlove5.com Subject: Re: reap (12:40 pm) Sorry to hear this Eb. I wish there were something I could say to comfort you. Positive vibes your way, Nuppy Quoting Eb : > My father. > > ............ > > Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #132 ********************************