From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #254 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 8 2003 Volume 12 : Number 254 Today's Subjects: ----------------- reap [Eb ] reap [Eb ] ahh... kidneys! I love 'em ["Natalie Jane" ] Re: favorite lyrics [Michael R Godwin ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Reap [Tom Clark ] Re: favorite lyrics [Eb ] See the tree, how big it's groan ["Rex.Broome" ] pied ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Holiday Update ["Rex.Broome" ] Dude! Those pyrotechnics rule! ["Glen Uber" Subject: reap Kobe Bryant's media image. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:36:21 -0700 From: Eb Subject: reap Kobe Bryant's media image. Eb This is fun: http://www.av1611.org/crock.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 08:30:09 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: ahh... kidneys! I love 'em And I managed to avoid exploding my kidneys, at >least as far as I know. One of my favorite skills that I learned last term was how to test for costo-vertebral angle tenderness. This is a classic sign of acute pyelonephritis, or kidney infection (such as Viv had a while back). The test involves lightly whacking the person's back, about where the ribs meet the spine, on either side of the spine. If the person has a kidney infection, you'd have to pry them off the ceiling after this test. Just thought I'd mention it. I also thought I'd mention that a study aid used in my class is a TOY PLACENTA. No shit, just like a stuffed animal, except... it's a placenta! It comes with membranes and umbilical cord attached! I want one... :) I turned in my resignation at my job on Thursday... I'll be working through the summer and then going back to school full time in the fall and living off the government! Whee!! gnat "working girls are fine" the gnatster _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:49:12 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: favorite lyrics On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Barbara Soutar wrote: > I have never seen the one "Four Eyes" though "Nashville Cats" is firmly > stuck in my memory. Yes, he was a special writer and had such a gentle > voice. (Oh and Michael Wells mentioned his sideburns, they were > something special too!) 'Four Eyes' is on the excellent "Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful' album. There is a CD of this available with bonus tracks: I think John Sebastian lost a lot of credibility round here following his blissed out "Whoo! It's like a whole city out there!" speech at Woodstock, which preceded his performance of 'Younger Generation'. So many people I knew absolutely loathed hippies, and that appearance just epitomised hippiedom. - - Mike "secret ageing hippie" Godwin n.p. Byrds 'Mind Gardens' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:43:11 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap Buddy Ebsen, 95. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:35:26 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Reap surprised nobody's mentioned this yet... "N!xau", star of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" http://www.namibian.com.na/2003/june/national/03DFC10047.html - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:16:05 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: favorite lyrics >I think John Sebastian lost a lot of credibility round here following his >blissed out "Whoo! It's like a whole city out there!" speech at Woodstock, >which preceded his performance of 'Younger Generation'. So many people I >knew absolutely loathed hippies, and that appearance just epitomised >hippiedom. And he also played a song about *rainbows*, right? "I'm Gonna Paint Rainbows All over Your Blues"? Something like that? That's also begging for derision and parody, I suppose. I have a copy of Sebastian's first solo album somewhere...I didn't like it quite well enough to add to the permanent collection. I always thought the Lovin' Spoonful were severely underrated, though. I think it's at least partially the name's fault. Makes 'em sound like some cuddly bubblegum group for 13-year-old girls. (Yes, I know what the name really means.) If they were something earthier like "The Sebastian Jug Band" or whatever, maybe they'd have, oh let's say, Buffalo Springfield-level respect or so. Because they sure have a load of great songs. That greatest-hits disc which came out three years ago on Buddah has 26 tracks, and that disc is *tight*, man. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:05:12 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: See the tree, how big it's groan MRG: >>Let me know when you come up with any comparable performances of "I am >>I said" or "Honey I miss you (but I'm being good)". I have a medium-dreadful version of my dad's band rehearsing the latter in a High School gymnasium circa '68, if that helps. The other tune from the same session is slightly worse, though (cover of "San Francisco"). - -Rex, back in town and iffy on it ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:53:45 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Blue Velvet America James: >>"I've looked at all of the photographs, but Cindy, which one of them is >>you?" (Billy Bragg) Man, do I love that song. Chills down the spine every time. Oddly I was totally familiar with Cindy Sherman's work the first time I heard it, but for some reason I didn't realize it was about her for, umm, a few years. Rather embarassing. In the interrim I'd dubbed my friend Cindy "Cindy of the Thousand Lives" and was sad that I'd already used it when I met another Cindy. (There are more Cindy's than you might think, at least in my life, although not quite 1000 of them.) James (or anyone else who knows it), do you detect an odd whiff of Jefferson Airplane on that tune? I always have, although I couldn't tell you why. I do think Billy was off on a psych-jag at that time (his cover of "7 & 7 Is" was a b-side for one of the singles from that rekkid). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:34:18 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: pied Alberta premier Ralph "No Relation Of Naomi" Klein. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:35:06 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Holiday Update Seems there's a California Feg Exodus in the offing. Logically and family-wise it'd make the most sense for me and my brood to head back to Maryland, which'd be in close proximity to some family on both sides, not to mention the best seafood known to humans. But I'm just not sure what the hell we'd do to bring in the bucks. My wife works at a museum and I hear tell there are a few of those n the DC area, so that could do. Me, though, I dunno. Crazy mad holiday weekend thingy... family reunion for my wife's side of the family (her brothers and their families, kids from college age on down to our 6-month-old), Bar Mitzvah including sailboat rides on the bay, that kind of thing. Bouncing all over the Bay Area doin' this and that, but less sturm und drang than these things often involve. My 15 year old nephew played me his demo (!)-- 12 original tunes his band hammered out in four hours or so(!!!). Pretty wild... makes my high school rock band adventures look pretty sorry, but technology's different these days. Yeah, technology, that's what it is. Amazingly didn't get lost on the drive from the airport, so Miles's loan of the sense of direction apparently reached me just in time. Gotta say (since so many people remarked upon it) that me and #1 Daughter looked damned good together at the Bar Mitzvah. Somewhere along the line I finished that there Harry Potter book. Didn't get much sleep. As the youngest of the "adults" I'm somewhat of an object of fascination for the nephews (who like to talk music and politics) and the niece (who likes to leap repeatedly onto my back, which is more painful than it used to be before she was, like, eight). Also ended up participating in a command performance with the fiddlin' brother-in-law of the tune he recorded with me and the wife. And was asked to trot out a few of my own tunes, one of which got a big boost from the fiddle accompaniment only to be derailed by my total inability to remember the last verse. No big deal, it's only a totally linear story with its vital conclusion at the end. My, do I suck. Saw three simultaneous fireworks displays from my mother-in-law's back porch. Otherwise totally spaced on the fact that it was the 4th of July. As of last night #1 Daughter graduated from sleeping in a crib to her very own bed. Sniff... they grow up so fast... on the other hand, that means #2 Daughter now gets the crib, and wifey and I get the bedroom back to ourselves, and that pays certain dividends, dunnit? Oh, and I still have some ear infection left over, apparently. Gotta go on some weird steroid/antibiotic combo to erase it. Yay! Think that's all. It was cool. I'm happy to be done with it but not thrilled to be back down here. But hey, what're ya gonna do? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:56:02 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Dude! Those pyrotechnics rule! If Dave Matthews sucks, may God strike me with lightning right now! Isn't Alpine Valley the place where SRV's helicopter crashed? - -- Cheers! - -g- "Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick that you must always first forgive them." --Bob Dylan, "Open The Door, Homer" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 20:56:14 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: Dude! Those pyrotechnics rule! Senor Uber writes to say: > If Dave Matthews sucks, may God strike me with lightning right now! (rumble) > Isn't Alpine Valley the place where SRV's helicopter crashed? Yep.* Used to be one of the prime party-concert venues in the Midwest, until they killed tailgaiting in the parking areas before shows. All through the Eighties you could park, starting around noon, on tree-lined grassy fields near the entrance - hatchbacks open, tunes cranking, grills going, beers flowing, frisbees and footballs everywhere. Porta-potties provided. By 8pm you would have a crowd absolutely primed for some serious tunes.** All the kick-ass bands used to play there***...now, well, you can see what you get. Jeffrey's old like me, so he probably remembers too. (ducking) Michael "why couldn't Robert Cray have taken that helicopter instead? just asking..." Wells * That SRV was some seriously sad shit. I saw the night before - it was a two-night stand - and he was fucking =unreal=. ** One night before a Heart concert my buddy Tommy got so drunk (as he was wont to do) that we dragged him by his feet across the ground to the main gate, much to the amusement of our fellow-concert goers. We jammed a ticket into his clenched teeth and literally pulled him through the turnstiles and onto to lawn, head banging off the ground and still dead to the world. I think we used his back to roll joints on during the show ;) *** It got ridiculous at some point - we were going up there two or three times a month, and usually for the weekend. OTTOMH I can recall seeing CS&N, REM, Boston, the Dead, the Stones, Rush, Triumph, SRV, Clapton, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and Deep Purple. I also saw Bon Jovi, but we won't get into that... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:01:13 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: Someone please release me On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Elizabeth Brion wrote: > Small-town living is wildly overrated. only for people who can't live without a starbucks, 7-11, fred myers or super wal-mart within 1.26147 miles. gSs ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #254 ********************************