From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #137 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 10 2003 Volume 12 : Number 137 Today's Subjects: ----------------- If my aunt had a package, she'd be my uncle [Glen Uber ] Uncle-rock (uncle-core?) ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffr] Media Bias [Tom Clark ] Re: Media Bias ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Media Bias ["Jonathan Fetter" ] RE: Media Bias ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: If my aunt had a package, she'd be my uncle ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Media Bias ["Stewart C. Russell" ] radiohead hail to the thief [Eleanore Adams ] Re: Pizza, Uncles, Gear changes - and Charleston, not Richmond [Jeffrey w] Re: Media Bias [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Uncle-rock (uncle-core?) [Eb ] Re: Mortality Meter [Tom Clark ] Re: Uncle-rock (uncle-core?) [Mike Swedene ] take me home country roads [crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com] uncle cnn [Jeff Dwarf ] Luxor [HSatterfld@aol.com] random Robyn photo floating around in the gaffa (fwd) [bayard ] Re: Luxor [brian@lazerlove5.com] Re: Mortality Meter [Eb ] Iraqi info minister [The Great Quail ] Re: Mortality Meter [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:36:44 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: If my aunt had a package, she'd be my uncle Once upon a time James Dignan say to me -- this is the dog talkin' now -- what is your conceptual continuity? > Other uncles to feature in song titles or lyrics that I know of: > Big-jaw (Verlaines) > Bill (My Friend the Chocolate Cake) > Ernie (The Who) > John (Grateful Dead) > Pat (Ash) > Remus (Frank Zappa) > Tom (Chris Knox) > Third Uncle (Brian Eno) > > Uncle Ernie is also mentioned in Paul McCartney in the song "Let 'em in" > along with, IIRC, Uncle Ian. > > The Tall Dwarfs also had a song called "Bob's your uncle", but, well... Others include "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" by Paulie Mack, "My Uncle" by the Flying Burrito Brothers & "My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died" by Roger Miller. Oh, yeah and then there's the bluegrass standard "Uncle Pen". - -- Cheers! - -g- "The line between us is so thin, I might as well be you. Everywhere I've ever been, I know you're going, too." --Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 17:41:04 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Lolita Nation, Mountain State Miles: >>Were I not Internet-connected, my fears were well-founded -- I didn't see >>another LN in the wild until 2002. Man, the way I found mine was pretty damned weird. It was in the used section of a Wherehouse (biggest lamest blandest record store chain this side of Sam Goody) in Pasadena. Usually they'll price unrecognized artists at $7.99 or lower, and GT would have been such an artist, I'd think, but some kind of database had tipped them off to price it at $15.00. Which is oddly cheap, really, but I still don't know who they expected to buy it-- certainly not their very mainstream clientele. I was actually in there looking for the cast album of a Broadway show for my wife. At least those fIREHOSE records are still in print (although if you need some of the more obscure stuff, let me know and I'll see what I can do). >>I'll bet your band was playing "Whole Lotta Love" and "Black Dog," not >>"Kashmir" and "Fool in the Rain." Try "Livin' Lovin' Maid" et. al. ("Kashmir" being by far my favorite Zep song due to sheer weirdness). I don't truly dislike LZ, but I was burned out on them before I had a chance to "discover" them. Not fair, perhaps, but apparently the boys have done okay in the sales department without me. >>OK, I don't get AC/DC *at all* in this equation -- TEN's not massive blues- >>based riffs played loud and hard... about the comparisons, but AC/DC seems >>way off base to me. Oh, shit, did I say AC/DC? Looks like I did. I meant Aerosmith. I just meant that they looked and sounded like *such* a mainstream hard-rock band that I couldn't square them with Nirvana or Mudhoney at all. Or Soundgarden, who I didn't like much but seemed much purer, or Neil Young until much later, when they started subbing for Crazy Horse-- Screaming Trees were Horse-like, sure, but Pearl Jam at that stage was way too slick. >>Since I moved to Nashville, I can see where WV was more of a border state >>than I thought it was, but the vibe was most definitely southern where I grew >>up. I can see I was right to dismiss the northern half of the state. ;-) Yeah, but it's still purty! The whole North/South dichotomy in that area is all relative, and it all depends on which direction you're driving from. I'm always hearing people say about DC, "It's really a Southern city"... which may be true compared to New York, but I don't think Atlantans would see it that way. (By the way, the snake-handling reference was meant to be satirical, but I think the reason it was constantly referred to as something "widespread" in the south of the state was that we didn't have any churches like that at all. Said a bunch of kids who thought nothing of speaking in tongues around a campfire at church retreats.) >>Have you brought this state identity thing up with your analyst? :-) Yeah. She asked me if I was from Richmond. ____ Melissa: >>So feg-list former West Virginians is Morgantown representative of your >>home state? I'm answering before peeking at Miles's response: no, it's not. I personally find Morgantown a little depressing. But I have not spent much time there at all, and none at all since that REM show in 1989. Whereas most of my high school classmates subsequently went to WVU and many still live there or periodically return there... I'm a real oddball among them. And now factoring in the Miles Opinion: >>I think of the bituminous coalfields as "real" West Virginia. Heck, I'd even say >>Morgantown IMO is skewed by the presence of the University of Southern >>Pennsyl... um, West Virginia University. Huntington and Charleston are far >>more West Virginia-ish than Morgantown. I'd agree with most of that (and I have fond memories of Huntington, setting of my Kicking Everyone's Ass in the State Social Studies Fair). I would also advance Shepherdstown (my Ma's alma mater, and that of the less alcoholic of my High School friends who went to school in-state) as a better balance of Westvirginiosity and ideal small-college-townishness. I've always liked it, anyhow. I'm not from Coal Country, really, but both sides of my family go back generations in the state as well. - -Rex "Montani Semper Inbred Underdog Yahooi" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:42:50 -0700 From: Mark Gloster Subject: Songwriter stuff Hi kids. I occasionally still lurk. There are lots of words in the digest, so I miss a lot. Yes, I'm still alive, hovering somewhere between the Oregon coast and Sunnyvale. Mostly Sunnyvale right now. Jason dixit: "In other words, the C-section in songs with a ABABCAB type structure, or some variation thereof." Once I had to perform a difficult C-section in public without anaesthesia. All survived, surprisingly. Okay, I think the audience was a little medicated. Sank yoo I'll be heer all veek. - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:00:31 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Uncle-rock (uncle-core?) Miles: >>I didn't expect OOT, AUTOMATIC, and MONSTER to be so close, wow! On >>the other hand, I found it unsurprising that the first three albums only went >>gold in '91, carried along by the band's surge in popularity. I remember >>thinking when LRP went gold, that this was the absolute most a band could >>sell based almost only on the support of college radio, the music press, and >>word of mouth.* This is supported by the fact that a number of people have asked me for recommendation on "early R.E.M. albums", and when I ask them what songs they're looking for, they'll cite "End of the World", "Stand", and "Shiny Happy People"-- this was happening as early as '96 or so. And even some of my friends with largish collections including some REM have been telling me "Yeah, I know Murur is supposed to be a classic, I gotta get that some day" for years. There sure is more cognitive dissonance between the perceptions of normal people and dorky music-heads like me than I often realize. _______ James: >>The Tall Dwarfs also had a song called "Bob's your uncle", but, well... So did Happy Mondays, although I believe he was more "yer" uncle. And let's not forget Terrance & Phillip's classic "Uncle Fucka". And the entire band UNKLE. And Uncle Cracker, that's someone, right? Kid Rock-relasted artiste? >>reminds me of Billy Connolly's comments about old Scottish folk songs like >>"The blue hills of Tyree", written by someone who didn't know that Tyree is >>like a billiard table Netherlands band the Nits did something like that on purpose in their song "In the Dutch Mountains"... I think it's still their biggest hit (on the Dutch charts, of course...) Rex "Uncle Wex" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 19:54:55 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye Quoting Miles Goosens : > the rule. The first time the daughter of one of the few churchy families > came to our school with a "backwards masking" tape, it didn't lead to PTA > bans on Led Zep, but to widespread hilarity. See? Those religion people are right: widespread hilarity is an attribute of Satan! (Or "Hilarity" is the name of a porn star...) Seriously, though: that backwards masking tape is great if you need sticky stuff on the *outside*. ..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 now smelling: Rose forgot that I cannot abide the smell of cooking cabbage - I should make like an Oscar Wilde character and carry a bouquet of flowers by my nose, lest my aesthetic sense be imperiled. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:55:32 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Media Bias Could somebody explain to me how CNN is a leftist media outlet? I was having a conversation (polite argument) with an office mate, and he just kept saying that they "put a negative spin on every story" regarding the war. And how "there were a lot of depressed people in the CNN newsroom when Baghdad fell". Now, I'm just a caveman, but it seems to me that they are doing a fairly good job of reporting both the highlights and the lowlights of the "conflict". Input? Comments? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 21:08:38 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Media Bias >From: Tom Clark >Reply-To: Tom Clark >Subject: Media Bias >Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:55:32 -0700 >Could somebody explain to me how CNN is a leftist media outlet? I was >having a conversation (polite argument) with an office mate, and he just >kept saying that they "put a negative spin on every story" regarding the >war. And how "there were a lot of depressed people in the CNN newsroom >when >Baghdad fell". Now, I'm just a caveman, but it seems to me that they are >doing a fairly good job of reporting both the highlights and the lowlights >of the "conflict". > >Input? Comments? The right loves to whine about the left whining, even when it is the middle, which is left of right. Max _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 21:17:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: Media Bias I think it's because they are the ones who Runtsfeld has been referring to when he said that the media has had several retired generals who were critical of his plan. Other than that, I don't really see a liberal bias on CNN, not like I can detect sometimes on NPR's "All Things Considered" and not like the reptilian stink emanating from Fox. But there is a definite idiot bias on CNN Headline News. Jon On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:55:32 -0700, Tom Clark wrote : > Could somebody explain to me how CNN is a leftist media outlet? I was > having a conversation (polite argument) with an office mate, and he just > kept saying that they "put a negative spin on every story" regarding the > war. And how "there were a lot of depressed people in the CNN newsroom when > Baghdad fell". Now, I'm just a caveman, but it seems to me that they are > doing a fairly good job of reporting both the highlights and the lowlights > of the "conflict". > > Input? Comments? > > -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 20:33:13 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Media Bias > Could somebody explain to me how CNN is a leftist media outlet? I was > having a conversation (polite argument) with an office mate, > and he just kept saying that they "put a negative spin on every story" > regarding the war. And how "there were a lot of depressed people in the > CNN newsroom when Baghdad fell". Now, I'm just a caveman, but it seems to me > that they are doing a fairly good job of reporting both the highlights and > the lowlights of the "conflict". > > Input? Comments? Just to illustrate how widely opinion on the subject can vary, *I* think CNN differs only superficially from Fox in its willingness to be a mouthpiece for the administration/pentagon. That anyone can consider them "leftist" (and I've heard it too) is frightening. And unless they show pictures of newly limbless and parentless kids at least once an hour they can't possibly be spinning negatively enough IMHO. +brian in New Orleans ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 22:13:27 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: If my aunt had a package, she'd be my uncle hey, don't forget folk heroes Uncle Bunt Stephens, and my favourite, Uncle Dave Macon. does Grandpa Jones count? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 21:15:54 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Uncle Pizza Being fresh back from the sun and sand (just in time for the classic early-April snowstorm, bah), it took a bit but I found a few more in my collection for the Unclelist: "Uncle Arthur" (Bowie) "Me and My Uncle" (also by the Dead) "Uncle Sam Blues" (Hot Tuna) "Uncle Bernie's Farm" (Mothers of Invention) the seminal guitar rave "Uncle Sam's on Mars" (Hawkwind) "Uncle Salty" (Aerosmith) There also used to be an old WWII song called something like "Nasty Uncle Adolf" that's been covered about a hundred times, though I do not have a copy. MRG, thanks for that fantastic review. More of why I love this list. Pizza talk...suffice it to say our first repast back in Chicago was pizza, the way God intended it to be. Deep dish, packed with sausage, onions, and cheese along with a few scattered mushrooms, peppers and a slightly-sweet tomato sauce...bliss. Getting harder and harder to find good outlets for it though, having become something of a lost skill outside the Italian enclaves in the city. Thin crust is fine but it's merely an appetizer, a light snack before the main pizza comes :) There's a place nearby that still serves a true 'stuffed' pizza, double-crust top and bottom and about 2" thick...serious business. Pineapple does not belong within 100 ft of a pizza. Eb, sorry to hear about your loss. You have my condolences. I, for one, am going to miss that Iraqi information minister. He was FANTASTIC! You just don't get quality programming like that anymore. I am pretty seriously stoked otherwise, Leo Kottke this Saturday and footy home opener Sunday. It's been a long winter. Michael "you're making me hungry" Wells np. Hawkwind @ Stonehenge, UK 6-21-77 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 22:17:04 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Media Bias Brian Huddell wrote: > > That anyone can consider them "leftist" > (and I've heard it too) is frightening. up here, CNN is considered to be the puppet of Grand Vizier Cheney himself. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 20:03:33 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: radiohead hail to the thief I have not been following the threads as of late... But I found on Limewire downloads of all the trax for the new radiohead album - excellent so far.... el ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:03:26 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Pizza, Uncles, Gear changes - and Charleston, not Richmond Quoting James Dignan : > Other uncles to feature in song titles or lyrics that I know of: > Big-jaw (Verlaines) > Bill (My Friend the Chocolate Cake) > Ernie (The Who) > John (Grateful Dead) > Pat (Ash) > Remus (Frank Zappa) > Tom (Chris Knox) > Third Uncle (Brian Eno) And, uh, Uncle Fuckah (the South Park boys). > >A really cool modulation occurs in the Beatles' "Here, There and > >Everywhere". Starts in G and stays there for the verses and then goes to > Bb > >for the "I wander everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never > >care" part (what is that, a bridge? A middle 8?) before returning to G > in > >the subsequent verses. > > an impressive variant on that by the Beatles is "Things we said today", > which is in A minor except for the bridge, which is in A major. An exhaustive, sometimes exhausting, harmonic analysis of *every* Beatles song...http://tinyurl.com/971k (Alan W. Pollack). Oh, and Rex, re playing "Livin' Lovin' Maid" by Led Zeppelin: I'm convinced that at least part of their poor reputation among certain audiences is due to radio's playing the same six tunes...many of which are among their worst, like this one, which probably *is* their worst. ..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: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:08:49 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Media Bias Quoting Tom Clark : > Could somebody explain to me how CNN is a leftist media outlet? They've not yet added computer-generated haloes to all images of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Franks, et al., and so are clearly in league with Stan himself. I mean, "Satan." Sorry. (honest typo!) ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: When the only tool you have is an interociter, you tend to treat :: everything as if it were a fourth-order nanodimensional sub-quantum :: temporo-spatial anomaly. :: --Crow T. Maslow np: Lilys _Eccsame the Photon Band_ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 20:13:18 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Uncle-rock (uncle-core?) > >>The Tall Dwarfs also had a song called "Bob's your uncle", but, well... > >So did Happy Mondays, although I believe he was more "yer" uncle. > >And let's not forget Terrance & Phillip's classic "Uncle Fucka". > >And the entire band UNKLE. I gots... Ben Folds Five/Uncle Walter, Eno/Third Uncle, 801/Third Uncle, Chris Knox/Uncle Tom's Cabin, Bowie/Uncle Arthur, Costello/Men Called Uncle, Zappa/Excerpt from The Uncle Frankie Show, Zappa/Uncle Meat [four different mutations, plus two excerpts from the film], Zappa/Uncle Bernie's Farm, L7/Uncle Bob, Liz Phair/Uncle Alvarez, Owsley/Uncle John's Farm, McCartney/Uncle Albert, Primus/Electric Uncle Sam, Randy Newman/Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues, Screaming Trees/Uncle Anesthesia, Spirit/Uncle Jack, Tall Dwarfs/Bob's Yer Uncle, Flying Burrito Brothers/My Uncle, the Grassy Knoll/Paul Has an Emotional Uncle, Kinks/Uncle Son, L--d F----y/Uncle Lucky, Verlaines/Uncle Big Jaw's Late-Night Farewell and Indigo Girls/Uncle John's Band. Though I missed the beginning of the thread, to discover why we're worrying about this. ;) And I also have "Electric Aunt Jemima" (Zappa again), "Auntie Mary's Dress Shop" (Tomorrow), "Your Auntie Grizelda" (Monkees), "Auntie's Municipal Court" (Monkees...surely the only band in history to record two "Auntie" songs?), "Gigolo Aunt" (Syd Barrett + Soft Boyz) and "To Aunt Rose" (Allen Ginsberg). Plus one "Grandmother" song, one "Grandfather" song, two "Grandpa" songs, five "Grandma" songs, 25 "Father" songs and 85 or 90 "Mother" songs. Woo? Eb, realizing that far, far more people are shaken by my father's death than would be by my own ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 21:53:55 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Mortality Meter on 4/9/03 8:13 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: > Eb, realizing that far, far more people are shaken by my father's > death than would be by my own How do you know that? Seems to me you couldn't ever judge that objectively. I mean, have people been saying to you "gee, wish it was you, Eric"? I'm not attacking, just wondering how you came to that conclusion. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:11:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: Uncle-rock (uncle-core?) - --- "Rex.Broome" wrote: > Miles: This is supported by the fact that a number of people have asked me for recommendation on "early R.E.M. albums", and when I ask them what songs they're looking for, they'll cite "End of the World", "Stand", and "Shiny Happy People"-- this was happening as early as '96 or so. And even some of my friends with largish collections including some REM have been telling me "Yeah, I know Murur is supposed to be a classic, I gotta get that some day" for years. There sure is more cognitive dissonance between the perceptions of normal people and dorky music-heads like me than I often realize. You and me both.... My gf can now tell what REM album i am playing and stupid stuff like that. She is well trained. Early REM is where it is at. I am wondering what this new record will sound like. Herbie np -> "She Sells Sanctuary" Cult ===== - --------------------------------------------- Rebuilding my websight: http://www34.brinkster.com/bflomidy/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:17:28 +0100 (BST) From: crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com Subject: take me home country roads >how the writers of >the 20s classic Swannee were very disappointed when they finally >saw what >the Suwannee river looked like, years after writing the song. I drove over a bridge on the Tallahatchee very near Choctaw Ridge last December, and thought to myself that Billy Joe McAllister couldn't have been particularly serious about topping himself... Crowbar Joe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:22:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: uncle cnn Tom Clark wrote: > Could somebody explain to me how CNN is a leftist media outlet? Because they always omit Bill Clinton's first name, Rapistandsexualpredator. ==== Uncles: Did Morrissey ever come up with a song to match the ever so delicate album title (with matching T-shirt my brother used to wear to family gatherings far too often for no reason he claimed), Kill Uncle. ==== "Tom Clark" bristled: > ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: > > Eb, realizing that far, far more people are shaken by my > > father's death than would be by my own > How do you know that? Seems to me you couldn't ever judge that > objectively. I mean, have people been saying to you "gee, wish > it was you, Eric"? I'm not attacking, just wondering how you > came to that conclusion. As someone who has been where Eb is right now, it's just part of the whirlwind. I don't necessarily think he meant people here. But the outpouring of sympathy etc. you are surrounded by from people you didn't know who were part of your father (or whoever)'s life can be oddly suffocating and overwhelming. ===== "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! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:06:42 EDT From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Luxor Given that Luxor is now available on Amazon UK, I figure I'm just going to order it from there...unless anybody knows of an imminent Museum of RH release. Anybody? (And congrats to the person who paid $65 for it on eBay...) Hollie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:53:54 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: random Robyn photo floating around in the gaffa (fwd) Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips.) http://www.hellfireltd.com/fame/WC&Robyn.JPG If you browse the directory there are other pictures. but no more Robyn. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:28:37 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: Media Bias > Now, I'm just a caveman, but it seems to me that they are doing a fairly > good job of reporting both the highlights and the lowlights > of the "conflict". > >Input? Comments? highlights, lowlights, shimmering lights, the disappointment with the ease at which saddam has been defeated is clearly evident in some and completely driven and fueled by blind loyalty. the left is doing it now and the right does it when they get a chance. the democrats and the republicans are like the hatfields and mccoys and we would be better off without either. also, i think women should wear clothing that is generally more revealing. gSs For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong. - -- H. L. Mencken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:03:19 -0400 From: "Velvet And In Onions" Subject: Fwd: Re: Luxor >From: duplanet@global2000.net >To: "Velvet And In Onions" >Subject: Re: Luxor >Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:55:14 -0400 > >Brian, > >Alas, no, it won't be available on the site and in the US for about two >months. > >Best wishes, > >David > > > > >Will it be available at the museum within the next week? > > > >Thanks! > >All the best, > >Brian > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:15:12 +0000 (GMT) From: brian@lazerlove5.com Subject: Re: Luxor I don't understand why it's not released in the states yet. That where most of RH's fans reside. Unless, the US version will have bonus tracks so we all buy it twice, which is fine by me, cuz I'm a sorry sap, but we've all had that coversation before right? Nuppy (who just ordered Luxor from amazon.uk.co) Quoting HSatterfld@aol.com: > Given that Luxor is now available on Amazon UK, I figure I'm just > going > to order it from there...unless anybody knows of an imminent Museum > of RH release. Anybody? > > (And congrats to the person who paid $65 for it on eBay...) > > Hollie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:02:26 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Mortality Meter >Tom: > > Eb, realizing that far, far more people are shaken by my father's >> death than would be by my own > >How do you know that? Seems to me you couldn't ever judge that objectively. >I mean, have people been saying to you "gee, wish it was you, Eric"? I'm >not attacking, just wondering how you came to that conclusion. Mmm...like someone else suggested, my statement wasn't referring to just the environment of *this list*. I don't think it has sunk in, yet. If my father walked in the room right now, I wouldn't say "OH MY GOD, IT'S A MIRACLE!!!" I'd probably say "Hey, great...you're back!! Bet you're glad that you'll be able to watch the Masters on Saturday, huh?" I don't think my head has really grasped the reality, yet. My mother seems relatively together most of the time, but can turn on a dime and burst into tears within the space of a sentence. And she was more together on the *first* day, before the stink over the robbery blossomed into a trauma. I keep playing maudlin songs on the piano, which he liked (or might like). Seems to be settling in as one of my chief coping strategies. Never figured out why he liked "Space Oddity" so much...he probably wouldn't give a damn about the original version. I've only gone running once this week, because my sleep has been so irregular that I don't have the strength. It's a beautiful, sunny day. Am I through babbling yet? Eb, in a daze ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:08:03 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Iraqi info minister Mike writes, > I, for one, am going to miss that Iraqi information minister. He was > FANTASTIC! You just don't get quality programming like that anymore. Hear hear! I really think that he could have a brilliant career ahead of himself in the US media. It's weird -- the more astonishing his lies, the more colorful his insults, the more adorable he became! I say, bring on the Saeed Mohammad al-Sahaf action figures! - --Quail, realizing for the first time he might really*miss* Tariq Aziz.... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:11:02 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Mortality Meter on 4/10/03 12:02 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: >> Tom: >>> Eb, realizing that far, far more people are shaken by my father's >>> death than would be by my own >> >> How do you know that? Seems to me you couldn't ever judge that objectively. >> I mean, have people been saying to you "gee, wish it was you, Eric"? I'm >> not attacking, just wondering how you came to that conclusion. > > Mmm...like someone else suggested, my statement wasn't referring to > just the environment of *this list*. > Actually I wasn't referring to this list at all. I think you and Jeff explained it all pretty well tho. Thanks. > Am I through babbling yet? > Don't worry about it. Here's a joke for you: Saddam's doctor gets all his look-alikes into a room. He tells them, "I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is, Saddam's still alive. The bad news is, he's lost an arm." Cheers, - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #137 ********************************