From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #190 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, May 25 2003 Volume 12 : Number 190 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Lots of boob content from Gnat [Eb ] Jeff vs. Jay vs. Wayne ["Natalie Jane" ] Re: eBay question for Mac Fegs [Tom Clark ] Re: gnatmaniax: confetti-throwin' Okies [steve ] Martin Bell/New Zealand/IDG is out of the office. ["Martin Bell" ] Smile! ["Maximilian Lang" ] RE: Soft Boys Ebay item ["FS Thomas" ] Re: Soft Boys Ebay item ["Stewart C. Russell" ] robyn stings, stewart remains slow ["Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Lots of boob content from Gnat I'm not sure why I was keen on seeing Liz Phair since I've never been a huge fan of hers. I think I was curious to discover whether her new material was as bad as I've heard it is. Anyway, although this was billed as "solo acoustic," she played an electric, accompanied by a guy on acoustic and a guy on bass. She was wearing what appeared to be sparkly silver leg-warmers on her arms. She was bemused by the little camera above the microphone which had been set up for the Lips set, which projected its images on the screen behind her. She turned it towards the audience, and started to put it down her shirt. (I'm sure evey het-boy in the audience was disappointed when she didn't go through with it.) Anyway, she played a few of her old songs, which were greeted rapturously by the audience and were as smart and cynical as I remembered, then played her new single, "Why Can't I." Chorus: "Why can't I breathe when I think of you." The next new song had the chorus, "I am extraordinary once you get to know me." This was all delivered very straight, without her usual dour touch, and the audience chatter grew steadily louder. I decided to save my strength and went downstairs to a little foyer area to sit down. > During "Do You Realize??", a fairly serious song about mortality, they > busted out the dancing topless girl footage again---- - ---- What is a "het-boy"? Or was that a typo? Yeah...it seems like everybody's saying the new Liz Phair album is a horrifying sell-out. Haven't heard it yet, myself. Maybe we should have seen this coming, after she sang on a Sheryl Crow track. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 11:50:43 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: Jeff vs. Jay vs. Wayne > >fans, and apparently doesn't like to put any effort into live shows, >either. > > Maybe he's just one of those people who should just stay in their rooms > >and make music. > >Lest someone be mistaken about what I meant, I think Jay Farrar plays very >well live, and that he is putting lots of effort into it. Sorry - I probably should have said, "He doesn't put a lot of himself into the live show," or maybe "give energy to the crowd," or something like that... he doesn't "rock out" or banter with the audience or anything like that - am I correct? I'm not sure how to phrase that. It's all inward-directed. I read somewhere that back in the Uncle Tupelo days, if Jeff Tweedy attempted any stage banter, Jay would take the microphone away from him. It's his shtick, maybe - being very earnest and serious onstage. I forgot to mention a funny detail of the Lips show - after they used the strobe light, Wayne kept asking everyone if they were OK. His fatherly concern was touching. :) Oh, and just to tie this in with the rest of the post, I spotted a guy in a Wilco shirt and, later, a guy in a Son Volt shirt. But they didn't throw down, alas. n. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 17:42:39 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: eBay question for Mac Fegs On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 02:54PM, steve wrote: >OK, former Apple insiders and other Mac Fegs, I was watching this thing >and it jumped from $12 to $305. Any ideas? That's more than mint in >the box Pippins are going for. You'd think it would be a red 970 >motherboard! > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2730164458 > > It looks to me like something that would have been given out at a "localization" meeting in Italy. (Localization is the term for altering software so it is presented in the user's native language. Apple has a fairly large department devoted to this in Cupertino, and then uses mostly contractors in foreign lands to do the translation work). - -tc, coming to you tonight from the Holiday Inn in Barstow, California. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 22:25:04 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: gnatmaniax: confetti-throwin' Okies On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 01:28 PM, Natalie Jane wrote: > As for the background films, the most distracting was during "Yoshimi > Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1," which was accompanied by a really > bizarre film of Japanese schoolgirls vomiting blood and shooting each > other, intercut with scenes of a woman apparently selling bottled > water. The first part sounds like it might be from Battle Royale, if they were in a kitchen. - - Steve - ---------- This big deal about Bush landing on an aircraft carrier? Talk about a 6-year-old kid with a Tonka toy -- we got it here. - Neil Young ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 01:01:00 +1200 From: "Martin Bell" Subject: Martin Bell/New Zealand/IDG is out of the office. I will be out of the office starting 21/05/2003 and will not return until 28/05/2003. I will respond to your message when I return. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 10:33:24 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Soft Boys Ebay item http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2533635828&category=20827 _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 11:11:42 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Smile! http://www.brianwilson.com/ _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 11:19:22 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: Soft Boys Ebay item Sprachen mien Lang: > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2533635828&category=2 08 > 27 I *was* thinking to myself, "hmmm...the Fillmore poster *and* a copy of "Live Death"...that's rare to find." Then I looked at the starting price. $99.99? Yikes. It's all moot, anyway. I've got everything except for "A Can of Bees", and even then I think I have all the tracks on other things. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 11:35:06 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Soft Boys Ebay item FS Thomas wrote: > > I've got everything except for "A Can of Bees" which was my first, and probably still favourite, SBs album. But $99 is very steep. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 21:35:03 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: robyn stings, stewart remains slow Whilst making MP3s of my entire collection of Robyn CDs (only 5 to go!) I noticed the following about the packaging of "Robyn Sings": * the Stripes and Dots patterns on the CDs are pictures of Robyn -- or more accurately, his shirts. * the acoustic photos were taken sometime in mid-2001 by listmember Jonathan Turner -- was it at the Printmaker's Hall gig? Slow in Scarborough, Stewart ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #190 ********************************