From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #330 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, September 4 2003 Volume 12 : Number 330 Today's Subjects: ----------------- One KROQ-hit wonders [John Barrington Jones ] Re: An utterly confused 40 of the 80s [Tom Clark ] Things in jeans vs. things in genes ["Glen Uber" ] Re: One hit wonders who died [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Echo and the Heartbreakers [Eric Loehr ] Re: Echo and the Heartbreakers [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: One hit wonders who died ["Marc Holden" ] Re: One hit wonders you'd like to see naked [Eb ] This may excite some of you.... [Eb ] Re: This may excite some of you.... [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: This may excite some of you.... [Christopher Gross ] Re: This may excite some of you.... ["Glen Uber" ] Re: Robyn USA DATES ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: This may excite some of you.... ["Jason R. Thornton" Subject: One KROQ-hit wonders Maurice & The Cliches - Softcore Serious Drinking - Country Girl Became Drugs and Sex Punk I take exception with both Blancmange and Thomas Dolby. Blancmange had another hit after "Ceiling" with "That's Love (That It Is)". Dolby had the other ones already mentioned ("Airhead" and "Hyperactive") =jbj=, who has cds in his collection from both howard jones and nik kershaw. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:21:47 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: An utterly confused 40 of the 80s on 9/3/03 10:54 PM, Nur Gale at gale@sinewave.com wrote: > Well, here's my rather eclectic selections: > > Laurie Anderson - Big Science > The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It > Nick Cave - Your Funeral My Trial > Don Cherry - Multikulti > Ornette Coleman/Pat Metheny - Song X > Miles Davis - the Man with the Horn > Miles Davis - Aura > Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal > Peter Gabriel - Passion Soundtrack > Peter Gabriel - So > etc... Sorry Nur, you obviously didn't read the rules! The key to the list is that you can't repeat artists. Got three or four others? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:22:23 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Things in jeans vs. things in genes Tom earnestly scribbled: >on 9/4/03 10:02 AM, Glen Uber at apostrophe@cruxofthebiscuit.com wrote: > >> Any of you married to Capricorns? > >And recently sterilized? Yeah, let's see how common all these things are amongst fegs. We know that fegs overwhelmingly drink beer, work in libraries and wear glasses. It would be interesting to know what other traits are common in fegs. Better yet, I'd like to know if there's a feg gene that determines all of these various traits, tastes and occupational choices. Wanna come back to my place and see my sutures? - -- Cheers! - -g- "In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are Consequences." - --R.G. Ingersoll ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:22:51 -0500 From: "Iosso, Ken" Subject: RE: Everybody Talkin' Bout...Weird Music Even Thunderclap's straining to hit the high notes doesn't come close to that horrible piano solo as the worst thing about what is really a lovely song. Ken Iosso - -----Original Message----- From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk [mailto:hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 1:17 PM To: Rex.Broome Cc: 'fegmaniax@smoe.org' Subject: Re: Everybody Talkin' Bout...Weird Music Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > Mike G: > >>Speedy Keane also died fairly recently. > > Really? That's kind of sad. The whole Thunderclap Newman album is > certainly an interesting listen. Really odd lineup in that band. I had the > single version of "Accidents", which is perversely catchy, on a mix tape > that I played a lot a few years back. Keane also wrote "Armenia City in the > Sky" for the Who, right? Right. The story I heard about Thunderclap Newman was that Townshend discovered Andy Newman and more or less imposed him on Keene (sic, my earlier mistake) when he decided to produce them. And I suspect that the piano solo is what most people remember about 'Something in the air'. - - MRG PS Stewart, sorry to repeat myself re Howard Jones. It's obviously something I need to unburden myself about. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:28:58 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Things in jeans vs. things in genes on 9/4/03 11:22 AM, Glen Uber at apostrophe@cruxofthebiscuit.com wrote: > Tom earnestly scribbled:>> on 9/4/03 10:02 AM, Glen Uber at apostrophe@cruxofthebiscuit.com wrote: >> >>> Any of you married to Capricorns? >> >> And recently sterilized? > > Yeah, let's see how common all these things are amongst fegs. > > We know that fegs overwhelmingly drink beer, work in libraries and wear > glasses. It would be interesting to know what other traits are common in > fegs. Better yet, I'd like to know if there's a feg gene that determines > all of these various traits, tastes and occupational choices. > > Wanna come back to my place and see my sutures? Well, we were all hoping you'd "pull an Eb" and post some photos... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:42:08 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died - -- "Stewart C. Russell" is rumored to have mumbled on Donnerstag, 4. September 2003 13:33 Uhr -0400 regarding Re: One hit wonders who died: >> PS Thinks: I hope no-one finds out I once saw >> Howard Jones... > > you said that some time back. Could've been worse; Nick Kershaw? OK, I was young at the time, but I used to like both of them a lot. A friend of mine did go to a Nick Kershaw show and liked it. I even put "What Is Love?" on my iPod, but it's not part of my daily diet ;-) I think I've got two Nick Kershaw albums, but haven't listened to them in years. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:30:27 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: Things in jeans vs. things in genes Tom earnestly scribbled: >Well, we were all hoping you'd "pull an Eb" and post some photos... Let me see...where did I put that digital camera? - -- Cheers! - -g- "Soylens Viridis Homines Est" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 13:30:34 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: All hail the new ECM fegs > From: "Rex.Broome" > > I just kinda became aware of this musical subculture m'self, so I can't > really explain what it is with much clarity, but here you go... > > http://www.ecmrecords.com/ecm/history.html > > Seems that adherents to the label will buy pretty much everything they put > out on the basis of them putting it out, True, and I'm almost one of them. ECM are consistently well-recorded, and often top-notch performances. They are cherished by audiophiles, and the label has brought many styles and composers (Arvo Part, the Hilliard Ensemble's recordings of early music on period instruments) to people who otherwise wouldn't have heard the stuff (me, f'rinstance). Recently, the record stores have been flooded with clean ECM vinyl, which is a Very Good Thing, if you ask me. One can't have too many Ralph Towner and Steve Tibbetts LPs. I'm sure there are several people on this list who have bought records simply because they were released by SST, Relativity, Elephant 6. There are even Windham Hill people, but they're just weird. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:41:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Everybody Talkin' Bout...Weird Music On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Rex.Broome wrote: > >>> "Time Has Come Today" > >>Chambers Brothers? Still gets played on oldies stations round here, but > >>not as much as that incessant Candi Staton record. > > I had a hard time finding the 10-minute version, but I haven't tried for a > while. I wanted to put it on a Christmas compilation at one point because > damned if it doesn't evolve into "The Little Drummer Boy" somewhere in > there. Awesome. So there were two shorter versions of this one? THere was a single mix, I think, with all the middle stuff removed, probably about three minutes - and the version I have, downloaded from somewhere Hilary Rosen would consign to the nether reaches of Hell, is about six or seven minutes long. There's a longer version out there? Not a live version, is it? > The great sixties one-hits are legion as we've said; I think the interesting > ones to mention would be stuff outside the purview of the > Nuggets/Pebbles-type zone, which is probably better remembered amongst folks > like us than, say, less aggressive stuff that actually charted higher at the > time. I guess I'm thinking of stuff like "Red Rubber Ball" by the Cyrkle > (although I'm partial to the Seekers' version with the 12-string replacing > the organ), "Will You Be Staying After Sunday" by Peppermint Rainbow, "Let's > Get Lost on a Country Road" by the Kit Kats, the Seekers' own "Georgie > Girl"... those were records my mom had, and that was some weird shit, man. > Peppermint Rainbow also had a go at "Green Tambourine"... it weren't pretty. There you go - better approach Rhino to see if they'll have a go at it. I know only two of those songs by title (Cyrkle, Seekers - oh wait, I know "Green Tambourine" but in the (jostles head to settle stray bits of brain) Lemon Pipers(?) version). Incidentally, one cool thing about filesharing sites is their ability to resurrect these songs, w/o having to buy dubious compilations for the sake of a single track. - --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 ::No man is an island. ::But if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, ::they make a pretty good raft. __Max Cannon__ np: that Dusty Trails thing ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:07:16 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Echo and the Heartbreakers Ken W.: >>Sorry if it's already been pointed out, but Mexican Radio I believe is >>from Aztek Camera. Hmmm, I don't see any similarities between Aztec Camera and Wall of Voodoo at all. I wonder if you were thinking of a totally different song... _____ MRG: >>And I suspect that the piano solo is what most >>people remember about 'Something in the air'. Either that or the Tom Petty cover. Oddly I heard that at one point recently Echo & the Bunnymen had recorded "Something in the Air" as a bonus track for a best-of that never materialized. It's a shame, because it would've made for a great trivia question: what song was recorded as an exclusive track for a retrospective by both Tom Petty and the Bunnymen? Especially since that Petty compilation has already been superceded... So, when new CD's cost $12, what are the "budget" prices gonna go down to? Nice of them to do that right when the Dylan reissues are about to be unleashed... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:02:43 -0400 From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: Echo and the Heartbreakers At 12:07 PM 9/4/2003 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: >So, when new CD's cost $12, what are the "budget" prices gonna go down to? > >Nice of them to do that right when the Dylan reissues are about to be >unleashed... Yes and no: Dylan's on Columbia/Sony, so the suits there would have to follow Universal's lead -- probably will happen if the whole thing's not an early April Fool's Day joke. Eric "if I could do it all over again, I'd do it all over you" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:25:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Echo and the Heartbreakers "Rex.Broome" wrote: > Either that or the Tom Petty cover. Oddly I heard that > at one point recently Echo & the Bunnymen had > recorded "Something in the Air" as a bonus track for a > best-of that never materialized. It's a shame, because > it would've made for a great trivia question: what song > was recorded as an exclusive track for a retrospective > by both Tom Petty and the Bunnymen? I think it was one of the covers they were considering for the then-emusic (or some similar service) only "Avalanche" EP; that and "Horse with no Name." Instead they released some Tim Hardin song that escapes me and "It's All Over Now Baby blue," but as a cover of Them's version. > Especially since that Petty compilation has already been > superceded... ===== "Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because Iraqis have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and have lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they're too Americanized." -- Bill Maher "Being accused of hating America by people like Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham is like being accused of hating children by Michael Jackson or (Cardinal) Bernard Law." -- anonymous . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:28:20 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died Michael wrote: >> >> PS Thinks: I hope no-one finds out I once saw >> Howard Jones... >you said that some time back. Could've been worse; Nick Kershaw? I saw Nik Kershaw, Spandau Ballet, Wham! (more George Michael with the other guy in the background), Paul Young, Tears for Fears, and Howard Jones (3 times). Fortunately they were all support acts rather than being the reason for going to a concert. Does any of that count as "time served" if I ever wind up in hell? Jeff: >> Plenty of songs were hits in one place that no one elsewhere heard of, >> particularly in the '60s. MRG >I think that's still true. But the most notable UK example must still be >Cliff Richard, who has had more than 40 years of continuous UK hits while >barely disturbing the US chart. I saw Cliff Richard & the Shadows and twice saw Status Quo. They both seem to get huge crowd responses in the UK, but would have trouble filling a club in most parts of the US. Status Quo might be remembered here for "Pictures of Matchstick Men", but that's one they don't play any more. They seem to have been one of the major role models for Spinal Tap. I really only knew a bit about Cliff Richard because he was frequently referenced on the Young Ones. I don't think I'd heard a single song in either Status Quo's or Cliff's sets when I saw them. They were both enjoyable enough, but I can't say I've had any big urge to buy their music. Later, Marc "People go, 'Aren't you worried about Hell?' No. No, because I WAS MARRIED FOR TWO FUCKIN' YEARS! HELL WOULD BE LIKE CLUB MED! HELL WOULD BE LIKE A FUCKIN' RESORT!!!"--Sam Kinison ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:38:19 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: One hit wonders you'd like to see naked >Well, I'm a Lemon Pipers _fanatic_ Now here is something which I've never heard someone say before. What does being a Pipers fanatic involve? Once you buy the two albums, uh, what next? I actually considered listing Blancmange's "Living on the Ceiling," because I did especially like that song. But they had a couple of other KROQ hits, so I figured they weren't eligible. And yeah, that US-vs-UK Cliff Richard situation seems *uniquely* extreme. >>And I suspect that the piano solo is what most >>people remember about 'Something in the air'. Hell, no! That whole song is just awesome. And I never knew Tom Petty covered it...I'd like to hear that. Incidentally, speaking of keyboard-fiddling, am I playing that song wrong somehow or does it change keys *every* time the verse comes around? If so, that's pretty unusual. Just that song, and the "Gilligan's Island" theme? :) >We know that fegs overwhelmingly drink beer, work in libraries and wear >glasses. 0 for 3. See? I *told* you that I'm not a Feg. ;) >I'm sure there are several people on this list who have bought records >simply because they were released by SST, Relativity, Elephant 6. Relativity? I can't imagine how one could be a Relativity fanatic. I have exactly two Relativity albums at this point (Fishcotheque and Stormy Weather...I want to find Next Saturday Afternoon, though), and I don't see much unifying concept in the catalog. Well, unless maybe you're fixated on that brief later period when the label suddenly started fixating on guitar-god instrumental albums. But then there's Stiff, Mute, 4AD, Shimmy-Disc, TeenBeat, Ralph, Apple, Nonesuch, Creation, Cuneiform, Flying Nun, IRS, Impulse!, Blue Note.... Oh, and naturally Corwood. And check this forum of obsessives, which I've been hooked up with because of my Longet doings... http://www.amcorner.com Eb, all over the map ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:39:27 -0700 From: Eb Subject: This may excite some of you.... [While I'm here, I thought this -- http://www.southern.com/southern/label/TCH/chicagoreader/butthole.html - -- was fascinating reading] http://hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1969026 Sep. 04, 2003 'Firefly' lands in film afterlife By Zorianna Kit and Chris Gardner The short-lived TV series "Firefly" is moving to the big screen. After taking his "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" feature film and turning it into a successful TV series, Joss Whedon is about to do the reverse with another one of his creations. Whedon has teamed with Universal Pictures to turn "Firefly," a TV cult favorite, into a feature film. In addition to having adapted it for the big screen, Whedon will also make his feature directorial debut with the project. Plans are to see "Firefly" go into production in first-quarter 2004. Universal recently acquired the rights to "Firefly" from 20th Century Fox Television, where Whedon's Mutant Enemy Inc. production company has a television deal. The action-adventure series was set 500 years in the future and centered on a crew aboard a spaceship. The feature version will incorporate the mythology from the show but will take on a more epic feel. Whedon hopes to enlist the entire cast to come back for the feature, depending on their previous commitments, with new characters added as well. Whedon is producing the film through his Mutant Enemy Inc. along with studio-based producer Barry Mendell. Mendell, a former agent at UTA, used to represent Whedon. Mutant Enemy president Christopher Buchanan is executive producing. Universal production president Mary Parent is shepherding the project. "Ever since the show went off the air, our fan base has grown even more," Buchanan said. "We've had tremendous outpouring from the U.S. and Canada as well as the U.K., which just finished a run of 'Firefly' over there. Every comic book and sci-fi convention has had a 'Firefly' presence since the show first aired." For the series, which ran this past season, Whedon produced 15 hours of television, including a two-hour episode. Three shows never aired on Fox but will likely be featured on the series' DVD release, due out in December. Buchanan said fans created such a demand that DVD presales on Amazon.com sold out within 24 hours. Whedon, repped by CAA, continues to be executive producer of "Angel," which he created. His feature film screenplay credits include "Titan A.E.," "Alien: Resurrection" and "Toy Story. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 15:55:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: This may excite some of you.... On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Eb wrote: > http://hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1969026 > > Sep. 04, 2003 > > 'Firefly' lands in film afterlife That sound you just heard was Miles and I high-fiving in cyberspace. Hey - instant nostalgia: when's the last time anyone used the word "cyberspace"? - --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 ::a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous...got me? __Captain Beefheart__ np: Tobin Sprout _Moonflower Plastic_ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 15:59:53 -0500 From: "Iosso, Ken" Subject: RE: Mine would probably be.... Well since no one's totaled them up, I want to make substitutions: Los Lobos - How will the Wolf Survive For Van Morrison - Irish Heartbeat And U2 - The Joshua Tree For Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me DOES ANYONE HAVE A RECORDING OF Robyn's version of "8 Days a Week?" Ken Iosso - -----Original Message----- From: Iosso, Ken [mailto:Ken.Iosso@CO.RAMSEY.MN.US] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:55 AM To: 'Eb'; fgz Subject: RE: Mine would probably be.... A couple of mild debates which I have satisfied as best I can: London Calling was released in December of '79, but needles to say was mostly listened to in the '80s - and even called the best album of the '80s by The Rolling Stone. Good enough for them - good enough for me. Kaleidoscope World is a singles collection, but there is no album from this period that I'm aware of and, like London Calling, it's so damned great and so perfectly representative of a truly great band of the '80s that it must be included. Argue if you like but I'm sticking my fingers in my ears and humming loudly. Loved everyone's lists. They bring back stories and situations I had forgotten. Listened to the dBs this morning - How Great!!! King Sunny Ade - Juju Music Billy Bragg - Talking to the Taxman about Poetry The Chills - Kaleidoscope World The Clash - London Calling Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom The Cure - Head on the Door De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me The (English) Beat - Just Can't Stop It Husker Du - Flip Your Wig The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms The Jayhawks - Blue Earth Bob Marley - Uprising Meat Puppets - Up On the Sun Bob Mould - Workbook Van Morrison - Irish Heartbeat Paul Simon - Graceland Pixies - Doolittle Pretenders R.E.M. - Murmur Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good Talking Heads - Remain in Light The dB's - Stands for Decibels The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, & the Lash Prince - Purple Rain The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time The Replacements - Let It Be Jonathan Richman - Jonathan Sings The Roches - Keep On Doing The Smiths Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska Talking Heads - Remain in Light Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights Violent Femmes Tom Waits - Rain Dogs X - Under the Big Black Sun XTC - Skylarking Ken Iosso - -----Original Message----- From: Eb [mailto:ElBroome@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 12:51 PM To: fgz Subject: Mine would probably be.... 10,000 Maniacs In My Tribe Adrian Belew Twang Bar King Brian Eno/David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Brian Eno/Roger Eno/Daniel Lanois Apollo Atmospheres and Soundtracks Camper Van Beethoven Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band Doc at the Radar Station David Bowie Scary Monsters David Byrne The Catherine Wheel Elvis Costello & the Attractions Imperial Bedroom Genesis Duke H|sker D| Flip Your Wig John Lennon & Yoko Ono Double Fantasy John Zorn The Big Gundown Kate Bush The Dreaming King Crimson Discipline Laurie Anderson United States Live Lou Reed The Blue Mask Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything Paul Simon Graceland Pere Ubu The Tenement Year Peter Gabriel Security Pixies Doolittle Pretenders Pretenders Public Image Limited Second Edition (blahblah, copyright issues, blahblahblah) R.E.M. Life's Rich Pageant Robyn Hitchcock I Often Dream of Trains Sam Phillips The Indescribable Wow Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel Hole Sonic Youth Sister Steve Reich The Desert Music Talking Heads Remain in Light The dB's Repercussion The Jesus & Mary Chain Psychocandy The Pogues If I Should Fall from Grace with God The Replacements Let It Be The Soft Boys Underwater Moonlight Thin White Rope Moonhead Tom Waits Rain Dogs XTC Skylarking ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:01:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: This may excite some of you.... On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Eb wrote: > 'Firefly' lands in film afterlife Woohoo! - --Chris (born on Oct. 27 and thus another Scorpio feg (not that I'd give a cupful of cat shit for all the horoscopes ever written)) ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:05:42 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: This may excite some of you.... Christopher earnestly scribbled: >--Chris >(born on Oct. 27 and thus another Scorpio feg (not that I'd give a cupful >of cat shit for all the horoscopes ever written)) I was talking with a co-worker yesterday about astrology and was trying to tell her how much stock I put in it. Thank you for providing me the words to do so. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Work is the curse of the drinking class." - --Oscar Wilde ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 13:38:39 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: Old Soft Boys Zine Damn. I just lost on this auction. Does anyfeg have this or know what's in it pertaining to the Soft Boys? Marc? I hate spending $ on auctions like these, but this looked like there could be some rare early stuff for the archives... - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:54:24 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Robyn USA DATES >From: "Brian" >Subject: Robyn USA DATES >Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 07:38:20 -0800 >From the museum: >Robyn solo USA autumn dates >Fri Oct 31: The Bottom Line, NYC David Greenberger steered me wrong! Of course, I am very happy he was wrong. I suppose this means Boston gets no show now? Max _________________________________________________________________ Try MSN Messenger 6.0 with integrated webcam functionality! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_webcam ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:17:44 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: This may excite some of you.... At 02:05 PM 9/4/2003 -0700, Glen Uber wrote: > >--Chris > >(born on Oct. 27 and thus another Scorpio feg (not that I'd give a cupful > >of cat shit for all the horoscopes ever written)) > >I was talking with a co-worker yesterday about astrology and was trying >to tell her how much stock I put in it. Thank you for providing me the >words to do so. Also works good for aromatherapy, acupuncture, Tarot card reading, entrail divination, feng shui, the Bible, Schwarzenegger's plan for California, Ayn Rand books and every album released by Matchbox 20. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 15:55:51 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: This may excite some of you.... Jason earnestly scribbled: My thoughts on the following: >Also works good for aromatherapy I like candles, but I'm allergic to a lot of scents so I've never gotten into aromatherapy. >acupuncture Yeah, needles. Riiiiight. See my post last week. >Tarot card reading "I played poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." >entrail divination Heard of it. Surprised I didn't see more of it growing up considering my family are redneck hillbillies. They like them there entrails. >feng shui I subscribe to Fucked Shui, the art of chaos and disorder. >the Bible Uh, yeah. Except Proverbs 5:19. I agree with that one wholeheartedly. And Psalms 137:9 is some good light reading. >Schwarzenegger's plan for California What plan? >Ayn Rand books I received _The Fountainhead_ as a gift about 10 years ago but have never bothered to crack it open. It's very heavy and difficult to lug from room. However, it seems to work well as a >every album released by Matchbox 20. They're an albums act? Hmm. I know, I think, 2 of their songs and the one that the lead singer did with Santana. Are those from multiple albums? - -- Cheers! - -g- "Work is the curse of the drinking class." - --Oscar Wilde ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:06:38 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: This may excite some of you.... Glen earnestly scribbled: >I received _The Fountainhead_ as a gift about 10 years ago but have never >bothered to crack it open. It's very heavy and difficult to lug from >room. However, it seems to work well as a ...as a tire chock. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Soylens Viridis Homines Est" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:24:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: This may excite some of you.... On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > Also works good for aromatherapy, acupuncture, Tarot card reading, At the risk of making myself sound a lot smooshier than I am, I think there's something to be said for Tarot cards, the I Ching, and anything else that starts trying to break the world down into *several* dozen different tendencies or classes and whose mystical usage consists of putting several of those categories side by side for someone to look at. Sometimes a good rapid-fire collage of abstractions is what you need to start looking at a problem differently. So this also means that given these two imaginary New Age people: 1. "Well, I'm highly intuitive, so when I do a reading with the cards I try to be open to whatever energy they have and let that energy come into my life. I find that this often changes my sense of a problem's nature." 2. "Last week I got a Tarot reading that said I should change jobs. I don't really want to, but the cards said so!" ...I would probably find the first one more annoying to talk to, and it's clear that they've got much more invested in the magical worldview than person #2, but they're also clearly using the idea of the cards in a much healthier way even from the point of view of a hard-core skeptic: "I looked at these cards and thought about some stuff and now I'm going to do what I want." Well, right on. Or, to put it another way, I've never met someone so heavily obsessed with rationality that they didn't believe in brainstorming. Looking at a bunch of Tarot cards feels like brainstorming to me, not like fortunetelling. (In high school, I was so into the art on Tarot cards that I learned something about reading them even though I was *more* of a fire-breathing skeptic on spiritual matters then than now. Who knows, maybe I was repressing something. But it does mean I can fiddle with them without always having a book around, something I guess most skeptics can't. I highly recommend the Victoria Regina Tarot, a deck composed of collages from Victorian engravings, at www.thefool.com.) a ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #330 ********************************