From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #336 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, September 6 2003 Volume 12 : Number 336 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Lets do it properly this time (Fegographics) [grutness@surf4nix.com (Jame] One Hits [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: What makes a feg? [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: What makes a feg? ["Glen Uber" ] RE: What makes a feg? [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] RE: One hit wonders who died [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Questioning the answers [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: what makes a feg etc.? what keeps him from etc.ing? [Jeffrey with 2 F] Re: (s) e(x) da (s)(e) [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] more questions... ["Natalie Jane" ] Something in the Air - 0% Robyn ["Brian Huddell" ] silly question [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Something in the Air - 0% Robyn ["Glen Uber" ] ECM, tarot, FegSongs etc. [Scott Hunter McCleary ] Frau Matzerath [Scott Hunter McCleary ] Re: All hail the new ECM fegs [gshell@metronet.com] Re: What makes a feg? - Checked by Vexira DEMO version - [Nur Gale ] What's in a Feg? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 13:53:48 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Lets do it properly this time (Fegographics) Questions accumulate. So I'll do this again, properly this time. Beer: Rarely. Cider yes, Schnapps yes, various weird cocktails whenever possible. Library: at one time. Now, art & journalism. Glasses: Yup Astrononsense: Me Gemini/Cat(Rabbit), Alice Leo/Sheep Bits: still attached Ethnic background: Whitebread. Family legend of being 1/32 Hindi never corroborated. Other than almost all Irish Celt on the paternal. Mother's side more difficult due to her adoption, but 50% West Country/Welsh mix, and from a place that neatly sits directly between two feg hotspots (Bath and Chippenham). Alice is part Northumbrian, part Pict, part Highland Scots, part north German Jewish, and part march country Anglo-Welsh (including a minor noble line traced back to the 1200s). Religion: You don't want to know. Ill-Advised Facial Hair: Semi-grown sideburns that will come off very soon. I once had a beard that got to the Che Guevara stage before it came off. Best anagram for full name: short name, "Jam inn! Egads!". Full name, once the awad anagram server got to 500k I knew it was going to be too hard to find one. The curse of having two middle names. Number of times dressed in drag: Once, as a pantomime dame (plus dress rehearsals). I was playing a cross between a Jewish mother and a Gypsy fortune teller, and with my nose I ended up looking like Little Stevie van Zandt. Least favorite food/food product: Tomato can hospitalise me. Lychees are perfumed soap. And Beetroot is potato marinaded in ink. CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: CA. That's Canada, right? Last three Halloween costumes: probably just the usual robes. Is it safe? As long as you follow the instructions carefully. What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? "Cracking toast, Gromit!" Feg Doppelganger? Sharkboy. The fegmovie will probably have me played by Robert Lindsay in a long-haired wig. How long? About 40 minutes, on average. Last thing you can remember drawing? Three German samoyed breeders. Don't ask. In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Cassette cover (Jason Falkner, "Can you still feel?"), a map of Southland, and the shrink-wrap from my new Haitian flag. You gonna eat that? Yeah I'm gonna eat it. You wanna make something of it? Favorite arthropod: Krill. Although if we're talkin' food, it'd be crayfish. Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? No, but I was once made a Minister in charge of Overseas Affairs and Underseas Dungheaps. Number of records owned with medusae on cover: Hm. Chills.... I may still have that Ween album around somewhere which had one on it IIRC (very Feggy lyrics, too, ISTR). Left or Right: 85% right, but left is stronger due to old injury. Pets/Pets names: None currently, I am surrogate ape to Alice's two cats, the elegant Jim and the brainless Grug (a.k.a.Grizabel) Written/depicted on your favorite coffee mug: "Cats know how you feel. They don't give a damn, but they know." Last time entered a WalMart: I've never seen a Walmart. Number of continents visited: Depends on your definition of OCeania. Other than that, N.America and Europe (if the UK counts). Default browser home page: My homepage Paper or plastic?: neither thanks, I'm not hungry. Typical freeway speed: too fast Picture on office wall: several. One I did, one my dad did, one Alice did, and a large print of a David Shepherd railway pic. Dream Job: I was, for one hour, once, a cricket commentator. I think that would be close to perfection. Windham Hill records: nil. Over 120 by Flying Nun if that's any help. If asked to play God, which would you audition for?: Zeus had fun. But Pan sounds better still. Reward credit cards: I don't own a credit card Last cd purchased: "Electric Lotus" by DJ Baba G, Dan the Automator, and DJ Swamp. Pleasant mix of Hip-Hop, Techno, and Qawwali. - --- >>>>How long?: All night, baby, all night... >> >>Thank you. Jesus. I can't believe no no one else was able to spot the >>setup. > >My answer was *almost* "Has this been going on?" but I didn't want to >create any unnecessary earworms. Ditto with me and "To sing this song? How long?" James 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: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 13:54:26 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: One Hits >>==60s one-hits in the sappy-poppy vein... Unit 4+2 must be near the top of >>the pile. The Honeycombs? Get a bit louder with Tommy James and the >>Shondells? or The Crazy World of Arthur Brown? > >Tommy James, a one-hit wonder? Hardly! so, other than Mony Mony, what did he do? That's the only thing I've ever heard of his. >>>But then there's Stiff, Mute, 4AD, Shimmy-Disc, TeenBeat, Ralph, >>>Apple, Nonesuch, Creation, Cuneiform, Flying Nun, IRS, Impulse!, Blue >>>Note.... > >I can safely say that I've never bought a record by an artist I'd never >heard of because I of what label it was on. (Would anyone here actually cop >to having done so?) not quite, but I've taken CDs to a listening post at a record store simply on the strength of the label. Got one or two good CDs that way too. Oh, 4AD, FWIW. I know people who collect Kog Transmissions CDs (and having heard a few, I can understand the reason. Most of the music is v. good kiwi electronica) James 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, 5 Sep 2003 22:25:59 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Quoting FSThomas : > Feg Doppelganger?: Forth guy from the left here : > http://www.njaz.com/fegfotos/images/SB2k-nyc-globe.jpg > (And yet another right hand to God(s) it's not me.) Okay, having never met a Feg qua Feg, I'm curious: who's the furthest-right guy (shortish hair, glasses, beardishness)? Cuz he looks like one of the Firesign Theatre guys. - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: PLEASE! You are sending cheese information to me. I don't want it. :: I have no goats or cows or any other milk producing animal! :: --"raus" last drank/drinken/drunk: Sprecher India Pale Ale - w/a pizza featuring spinach and bacon (?! - but tasty) last played: sound of Rose talking to herself as she installs a new printer driver in the other computer. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 20:29:51 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Jeffrey earnestly scribbled: >Okay, having never met a Feg qua Feg, I'm curious: who's the furthest-right >guy (shortish hair, glasses, beardishness)? Cuz he looks like one of the >Firesign Theatre guys. That's the great Eddie "Fuck Capitalism" Tews. I always thought he looked like Spud from Trainspotting. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Soylens Viridis Homines Est" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:48:46 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: RE: What makes a feg? Quoting Kevin.Welton@arm.com: > Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Saggitarius, I think (21st Dec. - on the > cusp, apparently). Which means you share a birthday with Frank Zappa (and one day after mine). ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and :: winds up as a processing unit. :: --Soft Boys, note, _Can of Bees_ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:52:28 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: RE: One hit wonders who died Quoting "Bachman, Michael" : > Another round of Elvis Costello reissues are due 9-9-03. Including Get > Happy! > and Trust. Does anyone know if these are going to be double disc Rhino's > like > This Years Model, Imperial Bedroom, My Aim Is True etc? According to the Rhino site (www.rhino.com), yes, they are. ..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, 5 Sep 2003 23:00:19 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Questioning the answers Quoting Jeff Dwarf : > the double f's fuck everything up I think I'll get this printed up on a t-shirt for myself... ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: we make everything you need, and you need everything we make ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 23:04:53 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: what makes a feg etc.? what keeps him from etc.ing? Quoting ross taylor : > Last three Halloween costumes: A donkey, a guy in a suit of armor made > from kitchen stuff > (collenders, burner rings, cookie sheets etc.), This one reminds me I didn't list my favorite Halloween costume: I put a plastic jack-o-lantern on my head, with one eye carved out and replaced with a lens from a camera or binoculars, and draped myself with various spare computer pieces, including a keyboard (if I'd been more together technically, I would've found one of those voicebox synthesizers used by tracheotomy folks). This costume, worn about 15 years ago, was called Cyberpumpkin (say it out loud. Now stop hitting me.) ..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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 23:27:38 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: (s) e(x) da (s)(e) Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > Nora: > >>Number of records owned with medusae on cover: three I think. I also > have a > >>toy jellyfish on my desk at work. > > Several questions: > 1) There are, what, three respondants thus far who don't have Submarine > Bells? I have that! And the TMBG one. > 2) What's the third one? And the second, if it's not Mimi Goese? (Clash > of > the Titans Soundtrack doesn't count!) Eh, what? > 3) What's the toy jellyfish made of? Huh? What are you folks talking about? > JeFFrey quibble: > >>I have three with one medusa each but none with multiple medusae. > That's > >>not actually true, but it allows me to quibble, one of my chief joys > in > life. > > Okay, okay, but... if I asked you how many albums you had with musical > artists on the cover, would you or would not count, say, "Invisible > Hitchcock"? It's only got one artist on there... but Robyn is part of > the > group of artists appearing one your collective record covers. Yeah? No? > I > give up. That was the idea - bwah-ha-ha-ha!! Actually, I had no idea what medusa(e) was/were until reading other people's posts. That right there probably disqualifies me completely from true fegdom. > Dammit. Oh well, at least nobody noticed my Sc*tt M*ller reference. Shah-heet. I must really be tired. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: I suspect that the first dictator of this country will be called "Coach" :: --William Gass ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:31:03 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: more questions... >Here's one for you, perhaps for your stripper alter ego: >LABIA CAT JONES Could be my midwife alter-ego too, though not one to inspire confidence in my clients. A few I didn't answer earlier... > >Pets/Pets names: Cecelia, my insane cat. But she believes her name is >"kitty." > >If asked to play God, which would you audition for?: I actually did play >God in a movie... a character insisted, "You can't be God, you're only 5 >foot 2!" But if I had a specific god I wanted to play, it would probably >be Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of destruction. > >Elephant Six (or related) Records owned: Too many to count... probably >almost all of them except for the Music Tapes (sold), Essex Green (ditto), >and some of that wanky new Athens crop like Major Organ, etc. I'm probably >missing a few others, too. >Natalie: > >>Feg Doppelganger? Eb > >Also odd. Eb's ass fits into men's clothing just fine. I was thinking of the term "doppelganger" as used in 18th-19th-century literature - my friend Bryan wrote his doctoral thesis on this. A doppelganger in this sense is more of an opposite than a duplicate. gnat "asynclitic occiput" the gnatster _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive larger attachments with Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 23:39:23 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: Something in the Air - 0% Robyn Lovely song. Naysayers are missing a gland or something. I always thought it was interesting that a double-tracked Keen straining for the high notes sounds a lot like a double-tracked Townshend straining for the high notes. Eb: > Incidentally, speaking of keyboard-fiddling, am I playing that song > wrong somehow or does it change keys *every* time the verse comes > around? Yep. First verse is in E, second is F#, then the unjustly-maligned piano bit brings the last verse to Ab. And the unsuspecting public had NO IDEA! I'd love it if someone who wasn't me scoured the charts for another example, but I won't hold my breath. I've also wondered if there were any notable covers of Armenia City In The Sky. I could look it up, but again I'd prefer it if someone else did it. I've always thought that song was ripe for covering. Beer: Well, duh. Hoppy northwestern ales that taste like dope are always nice. Rogue's Brutal Bitter was a welcome surprise the other night. Thick, malty Belgians are always welcome, if they bring a lot of beer with them, of course. These are the jokes, folks. +brian in New Orleans ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 16:39:33 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: silly question A silly question for you... I've just been listening to an anthology of old soul classics, and I was suddenly struck how similar the bass in "When a man loves a woman" is to Bach's "Air on a G string". Am I imagining things, or is there a similarity? I've had a quick google and the only sites I can find mentioning both pieces are ones saying that both were influences for Procol Harum's "A whiter shade of pale". None of them seem to make the connection between Sledge and Bach. James 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, 5 Sep 2003 21:54:00 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: Something in the Air - 0% Robyn Brian earnestly scribbled: >Yep. First verse is in E, second is F#, then the unjustly-maligned piano >bit brings the last verse to Ab. And the unsuspecting public had NO IDEA! >I'd love it if someone who wasn't me scoured the charts for another example, >but I won't hold my breath. "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe modulates from E (intro and first line of chorus) to F (rest of the chorus) to F# (verses). It's a very cool song to play. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Work is the curse of the drinking class." - --Oscar Wilde ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 21:59:50 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: silly question James Dignan earnestly scribbled: >A silly question for you... I've just been listening to an anthology of old >soul classics, and I was suddenly struck how similar the bass in "When a >man loves a woman" is to Bach's "Air on a G string". > >Am I imagining things, or is there a similarity? I've had a quick google >and the only sites I can find mentioning both pieces are ones saying that >both were influences for Procol Harum's "A whiter shade of pale". None of >them seem to make the connection between Sledge and Bach. There's the scene in "The Commitments" where the keyboardist is playing "Whiter Shade of Pale" on the church organ. He mentions to the band's manager that he loves the song and the manager says, "They lifted it from Percy Sledge". The organist responds, "*He* lifted it from Bach!" But yeah, I do remember reading that Percy Sledge's keyboardist and bassist were vamping on a classical piece when Percy began singing some lyrics over it. Thus was born WAMLAW. - -- Cheers! - -g- "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - --Frank Zappa ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 01:04:30 -0400 From: Scott Hunter McCleary Subject: ECM, tarot, FegSongs etc. I'll cop to having a fairly ponderous batch of ECM CDs. Some great performances rendered beautifully for the most part. One of the best things about the label is the incestuousness of the artist groupings - -- personnel span a lot of different recordings and styles. The sessions come off as pickup games where all the players are all-stars. I've made some happy discoveries following various musicians from one recording to another with a different line-up. Tarot fans might want to pick up Italo Calvino's "Castle of Crossed Destinies" -- he devised the story by dealing it on a tarot deck. A fun read if you are into creating stuff with chance elements. Ends up coming off kind of Decameron-esque, so you Boccacio fans might dig it too. Rex -- the disc just needs a label and it's in the mail! - -- ========= "Throughout the 20th century, small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world." - -- George W. Bush, 2003 State of the Union Address SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications PO Box 6163 Arlington, VA 22206 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com www.1480kHz.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 01:42:12 -0400 From: Scott Hunter McCleary Subject: Frau Matzerath Jeffery with the two Fs said: >Pickled herring. Not so much for itself, but because once Rose and I >were sitting in a little restaurant in the middle of the afternoon, >and one of the waitresses took a break at a table near us and >consumed an *entire jar* of pickled herring. Then she picked up >another one and started in on it...we had to leave. It was us, or >our lunches. Dude -- you were actually IN the Tin Drum? No, wait, I think that was eel.... > Sterilized: No, just very clean. > Best anagram for full name: Crotchety camel runts. - -- ========= "Throughout the 20th century, small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world." - -- George W. Bush, 2003 State of the Union Address SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications PO Box 6163 Arlington, VA 22206 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com www.1480kHz.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:40:34 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: All hail the new ECM fegs On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > Appropo of nothing: > Just returned from a lovely vacation in the mountains of Transylvania. > Remote and beautiful. Minor fact of interest - there are more wolves in > Romania than in all of Russia! i was out that way, but not quite as far east in january when i took the trains from amsterdam to hungary. did you spend most of your time in hungary or romania? i would love to go back next year, if someone doesn't mind paying for my tickets and food and hotel and pot. gSs ps - i was channle surfing last night and saw them interviewing a guy i assume was the quarterback for washington, since he was white and not very big. Though I guess that means he could be a place kicker, field goal kicker, punter or maybe a special teams lunatic with that extra hair up his ass. Anyway, this fella had a big GSS patch on his shirt. Who or what does it stand for? The first S was bigger than the G and second S, but they used capital letters. ps+ - anyone been watching 'upstairs downstairs' lately? i used to see it on kera but there was too much drama and I used to think that i could never enjoy such a show. Well, I was about 13 then and now I think it's one of the greatest thing since contraceptives. 'Monarch of the Glen' has also been playing and one i had never seen that one until just a couple months ago. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 23:31:03 -0700 From: Nur Gale Subject: Re: What makes a feg? - Checked by Vexira DEMO version - Beer: Microbrew Ambers/Browns  they stopped making Pyramid Brown Ale ~sigh~ Library: Weekly I call 911 to get help finding my way out of UCalif Berkeley library Glasses: usually reason why I need escorting out of the library Sterilized: thought I was shooting blanks for a decade until Aloka emerged Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Cancer/Leo/Taurus (Wood Horse) Married to (Zodiac-wise): Aries/Taurus/Taurus Ethnic background: Polish/Gypsy  born in UK Religion: Raised eastern European Catholic (who is that kid with Mary?); Tibetan dharma for over 20 years Ill-Advised Facial Hair: nope Best anagram for full name: Ragnuel (sounds like a kabbalistic/gnostic Archon?) Number of times dressed in drag: Only in a lemon chiffon sari Least favorite food/food product: My wifes Sri Lankan cooking when she uses those damn tiny dried fish thingies her brother sends her. Ludhanberi  Red chilies, lime juice, and onion mashed together and served on buttered toast with those damn tiny dried fish thingies. CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: that LA punk rocker named something or other whose selling her campaign panties on the internet Last three Halloween costumes: was the host  only wore aprons and stayed in the kitchen Is it safe? Does it include those damn tiny dried fish thingies? What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? Brownish coffee stains and infant drool that looks like Arabic script Feg Doppelganger? Well, its not Nick  I have been mistaken for John Denver though How long? Very but not so very Last thing you can remember drawing? Tracing my 6 mo old daughters foot with borsch In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Lint and assorted fuzzies You gonna eat that? Not if it comes from my brother in law Favorite arthropod: Just luv em horseshoe crabs Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? Not in this life Number of records owned with medusae on cover: Cant think of any Extras: Number of continents visited: five (both work and play) Browser home page: BBC World News Best job held: Public Relations director for State of the World Forum (Gorbachev Foundation) Most screwed up job: US Navy Hospital Corps (right after Nam) Windham Hill records: none (lost December years ago) ECM records: too many ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:39:16 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Or what about tarot cards with record label logos on them - -- gshell@metronet.com is rumored to have mumbled on Freitag, 5. September 2003 12:31 Uhr -0500 regarding Re: Or what about tarot cards with record label logos on them: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Rex.Broome wrote: >> -Rex, who used to occasionally write Oblique Strategies-type stuff on >> those little folded-paper things that girls in middle school made, the >> little squares that looked like paper mouths that they'd open and close >> and pick a corner with like a boy's name or some romantic advice on >> it.... err, does anyone know what the hell I'm talking about? > > boys made them too. i just made one. someone ask me a question, any > question. i have the answer. Here in Germany only girls did them (AFAIK). It's pretty amazing though that such a thing crosses oceans, isn't it? I have no idea what they were called ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 02:42:08 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: RE: What makes a feg? Beer: Chimay Library: 3 to 5 times a week, for work Glasses: yep Sterilized: nope Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Virgo Chinese: Dragon Married to (Zodiac-wise): n/a Ethnic background: about 30/32 English, 1/32 Cherokee, 1/32 Scots-Irish Religion: no thanks, I'm full Facial Hair: not in the last 10 years Best anagram for full name: Cardinal Wilhelm Om; Mild Llama Whore, Inc.; I Manacled Worm Hill; I'm Corn Mildew Allah; Mold Me Chili Narwal; Loch Wilder Mailman; I'm World Hell Maniac (etc.etc.--I liked that program someone posted, thanks) Number of times dressed in drag: what, did the photos get out? Least favorite food/food product: sea cucumber Last three Halloween costumes: the anti-Christ, a punk, a punk Is it safe?: Sure it is. Trust me. What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now?: Mr. Skull holding a clever Feg Doppelganger?: none? How long?: 4 hours 27 minutes Last thing you can remember drawing? Snagglepuss' head In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? mat, dust, gravel, coffee stains You gonna eat that? yes, unless the cat wants it Favorite arthropod: trilobite Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? I haven't checked lately Number of records owned with medusae on cover: all of them--I can't keep the damned things away from the vinyl Last time entered a WalMart: last week, for work Number of continents visited: 5 Paper or plastic?: paper Picture on office wall: an actual Route 666 sign I "borrowed" from the New Mexico Highway Department >Ferris's Bonus Questions: >Current job: habilitation counselor >Dirtiest job ever held: dishwasher >Dream Job: resort evaluator, worldwide >Left or Right: clumsy with both >Pets/Pets names: cats--Nina and Simon, iguana (which I found in a parking lot)--Iggy >Longest-Running Purchase Streak Whose Sole Unifying Trait Is Record Label: Ralph Records (Residents, Renaldo & the Loaf, Yello, Fred Frith, Snakefinger, etc.) >If asked to play God, which would you audition for?: sounds like an awful lot of work to me, I'll pass >Tom C's: >Written/depicted on your favorite coffee mug: Ivan--it was my grandfather's mug, and I still have coffee with him whenever I have the time >Default browser home page: sometimes eBay or whatever it is I plan to get around to looking over but keep putting off >Typical freeway speed: 65 to 84 >Windham Hill records: none >Reward credit cards: Discover Card, oh how rewarding, I feel quite enriched >>Elizabeth's: >>>Number of ECM titles owned: None >My new one: >Elephant Six (or related) Records owned: at least 15+ (Neutral Milk Hotel, the Minders, Apples in Stereo, Elf Power, Olivia Tremor Control) Last cd purchased: Neil Young--Mirror Ball (got Greendale a couple of weeks ago) Latest bitch: none. I'm happy as a fucking clam, you asshole. Favourite food groups: Indian (extremely spicy--"no refunds") Robyn fan since: 1988/9 Most versatile word: fuck First psych pop album owned: Sgt. Pepper, The Mothers--Freak Out, Pink Floyd--A Nice Pair I guess I need to add one since that's the trend here. Have you ever found a dead person?: yes, washed up on the beach in Charleston SC BONUS SWEARING TIP: By reversing "fuck" and "cock" you can substantially improve your swearing. EG: "Cock off you cocking fucksucker." ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:07:58 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: What's in a Feg? OK, I'm a bit late to the party, but this seems like fun. I hope someone is gonna compile and analyze these .. Beer: Yes! I'm a late adopter, having started only at age 26, but I'm trying to make up for the lost time. Mostly K"olsch, sometimes Weizen. Pils only if there's nothing else. Also red wine, preferably Italian. Hard liquor only rarely. Library: not anymore Glasses: yes Sterilized: not that I know of, but wouldn't make any difference anyway Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Gemini Chinese Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Monkey Married to (Zodiac-wise): n/a. Both former girlfriends were Taurus (Tauri?). Does that mean anything? Ethnic background: German. AFAIK pure. That's nothing I'm proud of, on the contrary. Religion: none. My parents didn't even have me baptized, which is still rare in Germany. BTW, my sister turned Catholic at 18. Ill-Advised Facial Hair: I'm blonde and I seldom shave twice in a week. Sometimes I go even longer between shaves, which may be ill-advised. Best anagram for full name (German): Ananas bedroht Sieg Best anagram for full name (English): Hoarding eaten bass - which seems both yucky and germane to this list. Runner up: Dragonish NASA beet Number of times dressed in drag: one or two. I went to grade/elementary school in a dress for a while, but I wouldn't call that "in drag". Least favorite food: meat Last three Halloween costumes: that would be Karneval in these here parts, although they're trying to establish Halloween ... cultural imperialism, anyone? Anyway, my costumes are mostly weird clothing and make-up, nothing specific. Is it safe? Much too safe What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? GRAVIS - your No. 1 (see www.gravis.de, my former employer) Feg doppelg"anger: none that I know of How long? Either it's too long or too short, it never seems to be the right length. In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Never had one. You gonna eat that? I'll eat anything except meat. Favorite arthropod: yuck. Number of records owned with medusae on cover: only the usual: Submarine Bells Current job: Network administrator for Cologne University, though I mostly keep the central mail servers happy. Dirtiest job ever held: none really, but when I did IT consulting I once had a brothel as customer. The only time I ever set foot in one ... Left or right: right If asked to play God, which would you audition for? Dionysus Written/depicted on your favorite coffee mug: #include Picture on office wall: our network topology, an iMac poster Pets/Pets' names: a cat comes visiting; we used to have a turtle called Claudia Last time entered a WalMart: Several years ago, when they started setting them up over here. The only one close to my place was closed when the employees were starting to get union-organised Number of continents visited: only two, but I've come close to Africa when I was in Sardinia and close to Asia when I was in Samara, Russia Default browser home page: at the office a work-related intranet site, at home nothing ECM records: one, I think: Keith Jarret, The K"oln Concert (that's compulsory here) Robyn fan since: 1986 Last film seen: The Pianist Number of Macs owned: three Last CDs purchased: Rolling Stones, Exile On Main St. and The Byrds, Fifth Dimension - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #336 ********************************