From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #228 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, June 21 2003 Volume 12 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: influences & RH unalbumed [Eb ] Re: more song influences [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: scotelund ["Stewart C. Russell" ] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stop_The_Gay_Canadians!_______=A0_______________ _?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_________________________________________________?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?__?= [] Re: more song influences ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Apple G5 :-) (0% RH) Apologies [Ken Weingold ] Re: more song influences [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Interesting, but no Robyn [steve ] Re: having neglected to weigh in on Scotch... [Eleanore Adams ] re: Terry Riley ["John B. Jones" ] Sweet Home Fegmania [crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com] It's positively Alarming (0% RH) ["Michael Wells" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:27:54 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: influences & RH unalbumed >Never had >a love song written about me as far as I know, but a poem, yes, about which >I felt both embarrassed and warmly flattered at the same time. Someone wrote me a love poem once...I melted. Still have it. She also said she wrote a short story based on me, but neurotically kept me from reading it. Hm. > And I have had my portrait painted, and got the > same mixed feeling about it. LJ has been working on a portrait of me and my sister for awhile now, and at her current rate of progress, it should be done sometime circa 2021. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 13:41:03 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: more song influences >>>I wrote one song called "Airwaves" whose intro guitar riff was Clapton's >>>"Bad Love" backwards. > >Funny this should come up after Jeffrey's Verlaine reference, since the only >other instance of this I know of is the riff to Television's "Days", which >is McGuinn's "Mr. Tambourine Man" riff backwards. Bowie's "Move on" contains part of "All the young dudes" backwards. There's a Stone Roses song that is another SR song backwards ("Waterfall" is the latter). And, famously, The Beatles' song "Because" is based on the idea of playing the score for Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata upside down. >The weather is unbelievably dreary in recent days. Very Northwesty. oh for a nice warm dry nor'wester... James (freezing his patooties way down south) James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:55:42 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: scotelund James Dignan wrote: > > Oh, did I tell you this place > was settled by Scots? ;) of course. we Invented The Modern World, of course. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:59:08 -0500 From: steve Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stop_The_Gay_Canadians!_______=A0_______________ _?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_________________________________________________?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?__?= > In a shocking new poll, fully 41 percent of Americans now believe the > terrorists responsible for the 9/11 tragedy were, in fact, gay married > Canadians. > > Similarly, 23 percent are now convinced Saddam Hussein was either > "somewhat" or "almost totally" Canadian. Or gay. Or a member of > Loverboy. More wingnut baiting can be found at - The easily horrified may wish to skip the last link in the body of the article. - - Steve __________ American non-Christians told pollsters that evangelical Christians are better than prostitutes but worse than lawyers or lesbians. - Harper's Magazine Weekly Review, December 17, 2002 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:00:51 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: more song influences James Dignan wrote: > > Bowie's "Move on" contains part of "All the young dudes" backwards. TMBG's song "On Earth My Nina" is their entire song "Thunderbird" sung backwards. It's strange. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:03:15 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Apple G5 :-) (0% RH) Apologies On Fri, Jun 20, 2003, Mike Swedene wrote: > if you had been so lucky as to have been cruising the > Apple Store between, say, 11:30 PM and midnightish > Eastern time last night, you might have noticed that > the specs for the Power Mac G4 suddenly seemed a > little, well, unfamiliar. Scads of screenshots > flooding our inbox show the Power Mac G4's listed > specs as including "1.6 GHz, 1.8 GHz, or Dual 2 GHz > PowerPC G5 Processors; up to 1 GHz processor bus; up > to 8 GB of DDR SDRAM; Fast Serial ATA hard drives; AGP > 8x Pro; three PCI or PCI-X expansion slots; three USB > 2.0 ports; one FW800, two FW400 ports; Bluetooth & > AirPort Extreme ready; optical and analog audio in and > out." Maybe it's just us, but that doesn't sound like > any Power Mac G4 we've ever seen. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:27:21 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: more song influences Quoting James Dignan : > Bowie's "Move on" contains part of "All the young dudes" backwards. > There's > a Stone Roses song that is another SR song backwards ("Waterfall" is the > latter). And, famously, The Beatles' song "Because" is based on the idea > of playing the score for Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata upside down. Hmmm...I'd believe "backwards," but upside down? It somehow manages to be in the same key (C#m): I'm pretty sure that wouldn't happen upside down (you'd get some nonlinear "key" with a very weird scale). Anyway, John Lennon never read music (although I'm pretty sure Yoko does). A couple pairs of Camper Van Beethoven songs are (or are based upon) one another in reverse, and apparently they used to use playing songs backwards as a compositional inspiration quite often. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: it's not your meat :: --Mr. Toad ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:27:40 -0500 From: steve Subject: Interesting, but no Robyn These two sorta go together - Working tomorrow so I can go to the Apple Store on Monday - Steve __________ In terms of the power he now claims, without significant challenge, George W. Bush is now the closest thing in a long time to dictator of the world. - Michael Kinsley ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:02:45 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: having neglected to weigh in on Scotch... Our favorite whisky is Bunnahabhain (boone a ha bin), which is smooth as silk single islay malt scotch whiskey. I have never had anything better. It is hard to get in the States. You can get it at some Scottish import stores, but seems to be very hard to import because of cost and batch. My husband has relatives in Doune, near Sterling. We spent a lot of time exploring the East Highlands, stopping for a taste of Glenmorangie in Tain. Very cool if you are going that far north, into sheep country. eleanore On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 05:03 AM, FS Thomas wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On > Behalf >> Of Dolph Chaney >> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:26 PM >> To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >> Subject: having neglected to weigh in on Scotch... >> >> ...it's become one of my favorite subjects recently. :) >> >> I'll speak up for Aberlour, w/ Glenmorangie and Glenfiddich right in >> there. >> >> dolph >> nd: Aberlour 15 year Sherry Wood Finish > > I'm drooling on myself just thinking about Oban's. Hmmm...smokey > goodness... > > For table whiskey (and I know it's a well-brand), Paddy's is pretty > damned good, just not available in the States. > > -ferris. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 06:02:54 EDT From: UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com Subject: RE: Luxor artwork Rexy Da Broom declared with a faint West Virginian accent: > Now, what this (and the actual package) makes me think of is not > narcissism, but low-budget-ness. If you've ever seen a self-produced, > self-released, low budget CD by a solo artist, there's a pretty strong > chance the artwork looks something like Luxor's... photos of the guy. > Unless someone volunteers intensive original artwork for free (and > admittedly Robyn coulda done his own) See that's what really cheeses me off about the artwork. Not only is it a really awful picture but Robyn could have taken one of his paintings or even one his doodles would have been better. I think even this sketch would have made for a better cover even though its rather silly: http://www.robynhitchcock.com/afterlovelymealdwg.htm No comment on the contents of the album yet until I get my copy in the mail. Later, Nora np: Grant McLennan - Horsebreaker Star (certainly a candidate for any bad title/good album list) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 10:54:32 -0700 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: re: Terry Riley Matt said: "If you're a fan of Terry Riley's early minimalist stuff, Barbara, then you'd probably find Steve Reich and Phillip Glass equally rewarding... if you don't already..." Thanks Matt. I do know Philip Glass, but not Steve Reich. Will look him up! What I am most interested in is tracking down music trends right to their source... it seems that Terry Riley was one of the earliest composers working with electronic music. And of course John Cale was right there with him, experimenting with sounds. Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:23:47 -0700 From: "John B. Jones" Subject: re: Terry Riley >Thanks Matt. I do know Philip Glass, but not Steve Reich. Will look him up! I think Reich's "Music For 18 Musicians" is one of the most moving pieces of music ever written. Especially the ECM recording from the 70's. However, most of my friends can't stand it, and look at me screwy whenever I start gushing about it. =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:30:23 +0100 (BST) From: crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com Subject: Sweet Home Fegmania >>"Sweet Home Petaluma" (Parody of "Sweet Home >>Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd) >"Sweet Hope West Virginia" right back at you. I'm sure I'm not >the first to I once wrote a song, called Second Home Chicago, which at the same time parodied the propensity of British bar bands from Guildford and Grimsby to sing Sweet Home Chicago, when they haven't been within 4000 miles of the city; and yet also expressed my own love for the Chicago blues...Phew, what a complex and brilliant song it is ;-) Crowbar Joe ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:08:15 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: It's positively Alarming (0% RH) Off The Alarm - announce list. I thought it was an interesting promotional concept...what, is Mike short of frequent flyer miles? Plus it will be fun to hear some of the "old" songs again (old? the mid-eighties are old? ye gods). Any way you cut that schedule, it has to suck - playing two sets at the Elbo Room here in Chicago on Thursday night fresh off two sets the night before in Boston, then doing two more at the Fillmore West in LA on Friday night. Then going back East and doing it again for the next two weeks. Michael "lightly overcast in the Summertime" Wells ============= On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary since the release of The Alarm's debut American single, 'The Stand', and first tour of North America as guests of U2 during 1983's 'War Tour'. The Alarm will host a three night stand/residency in New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles this November 2003. 'The Alarm Make A Stand In the USA' Mondays 3/10/17 of November at The Knitting Factory (East), New York, NY. Wednesdays 5/12/19 of November at The Middle East, Boston, MA. Thursdays 6/13/20 of November at The Elbo Room, Chicago, IL. Fridays 7/14/21 of November at The Knitting Factory (West), Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA. At each venue, Mike Peters and The Alarm will perform two sets a night, playing all the Alarm classics like ' 68 Guns', 'Spirit Of '76', 'Strength', 'Rain In The Summertime' and of course 'The Stand' plus on different nights, some of the more rare Alarm tracks like 'For Freedom' and 'Third Light'. U.S. fans will also have their first chance to hear live, some of the new songs from the inspirational 'In The Poppy Fields Collection' - the first recorded music in over ten years to carry the hallmark of The Alarm. Mike and the band will also be inviting some very special guests to play support and/or to join them onstage during the course of the three week event. In doing so Mike Peters and The Alarm hope to bring the spirit of The Gathering to the USA. Tickets are for all shows are priced $15 advance. 'Season Tickets' are also available that get you into 3 shows in one city for the special price of $35 (A savings of $10). Season ticket holders also qualify for aftershow party passes. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:06:15 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: It's positively Alarming (0% RH) > Tickets are for all shows are priced $15 advance. 'Season Tickets' are > also > available that get you into 3 shows in one city for the special price of > $35 > (A savings of $10). Season ticket holders also qualify for aftershow party > passes. That's fucking rich! I mean, yeah, I would go see them, but the opportunity for *any* reunion tour to go on and then charge $15 (how much were Soft Boy tix?), and get a deal if you go to all three? Crichey. (sp?) - -ferris. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #228 ********************************