From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #337 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, September 7 2003 Volume 12 : Number 337 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: questions ["" ] Evil foods [Jeff Dwarf ] The Bonus Round [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: What's in a Feg? [Dolph Chaney ] Re: Or what about tarot cards with record label logos on them ["Stewart C] i'm going home [hb ] Rocket From The Tombs dates. ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: All hail the new ECM fegs ["Glen Uber" ] Re: All hail the new ECM fegs [Jeff Dwarf ] Soulseek solution [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: One hit wonders who died ["" ] What makes a feg? [crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 11:26:20 +0100 From: "" Subject: Re: questions Beer: Usually Smiles. But if anyone offers me a pint of Felinfoel I will lap it up. Also available for Bellringer, Wadworths IPA, 6X (occasionally), Boddingtons, Grolsch etc. Library: No but my best friend from school has been in the library game for 30 years. Glasses: Yes. Left-handed asthmatic: Yes. Astrononsense: Aries the Firefighter! Bits: still attached Ethnic background: Both grandfathers English AFAIK. Grandma Rowland Scottish (nee Duncan), Grandma Godwin Jewish (nee Elias) Religion: Woolly Piper at the Gates style pantheist. Ill-Advised Facial Hair: Masses of it. I still aspire to look like Eric Bloom, but wherever I go, people call out 'Rolf Harris'... Best anagram for full name: No idea. I always use Dagwyn Q Marg, which started as an anagram of M R Godwin but got some other letters along the way Number of times dressed in drag: Ein. I wrote a fabulous sketch once in which I appeared as a German paratrooper disguised as a nun. With any luck the photos have all been destroyed. Least favorite food/food product: Most things except toast. Last three Halloween costumes: Are you supposed to dress up for this? What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? "Prawn to be wild" (one of those Simon Drew T-shirts) Feg Doppelganger? None Last thing you can remember drawing? A Spitfire roaring out of the sun to take on three (yes, _three_) Messerschmitt 109Fs. Watch out Roy Liechtenstein! In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? David Cameron Dudley CD "Yhaal House" Favorite arthropod: Trilobite Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? Is this possible? I thought that the monarch had to do it in person. Maybe Governors-General have delegated powers. Not many viceroys around nowadays. Pets/Pets names: Just poor old ageing Curie (18), who pissed in a bag of apples yesterday. I think she is beginning to lose it. Written/depicted on your favorite coffee mug: Southern Railway Battle of Britain Class unrebuilt Pacific with Bulleid-Firth-Brown 'Boxpok' wheels! Last time entered a WalMart: Not. Number of continents visited: Europe, Africa, Asia, N America - four. Default browser home page: Bath University Paper or plastic?: neither thanks, I'm not hungry. If asked to play God, which would you audition for?: Thoth, obviously Last cd purchased: Kevin Ayers Banana Follies - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 03:47:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Evil foods "Rex.Broome" wrote: > Both "bananas" and "watermelons" made multiple > appearances in the "least favorite food" column. I can > see not being a fan of either, but I don't think I've > ever heard anyone profess active dislike for them, much > less rank them as "least favorite". Well, part of my disdain for watermelons comes from being _VERY_ violently ill -- like outtakes from _The Exorcist_ bad -- when I eat them (or cucumbers, for that matter). That tends to make you not enjoy a food very much. And bananas are just so oppressively omnipresent -- same with strawberries. It's almost like it's illegal to not like them. Which just makes me loathe them all the more. ===== "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: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 04:14:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: The Bonus Round Written/depicted on your favorite coffee mug: Santa being crucified. Last time entered a WalMart: Never been in one. Number of continents visited: only North America, though I have been to Oahu and Maui. Default browser home page: mail.yahoo.com Paper or plastic?: Paper. Typical freeway speed: 65-70, unless traffic is slower. at 3am, have been known to creep up to 80. Still get passed by some psycho, usually in a CHP cruiser. Picture on office wall: no office, but the newsroom here has three maps of various parts of the bay area, and old poster for the Oakland Zoo, and a mock-up of a old KFRC busboard. Windham Hill records: none Reward credit cards: no credit cards at all Current job: Babysitting radio station computers, and other related duties, along with slowly going to skuel. Dirtiest job ever held: usually fast food shit at a Carl's Jr. Dream Job: Contradiction of terms. Left or Right: Right handed, eyed, and footed. Everything else pretty much left. Pets/Pets names: Between dogs; previous dogs were Emily Elizabeth (1978-1990) -- a fox terrier/dauchsund/chihuahua mix rescued from the pound who liked to eat flies; was also my 6th birthday present along with crap I don't remember; named for owner of Clifford the Big Red Dog, after my brother and sister couldn't pronounce the first name I gave her (Sherbet) and my mother rejected calling her Clifford since she was a female dog (as if she would have know she had a male name). Then, Barney (1985-2000), an "unshowable" (due to underbite, oversize, and improperly curly tail) shih tzu who liked to sneeze on your food while you were eating it so you'd have to feed it to him instead, and throwing his water dish around when it was empty so that you'd know it needed to be fed; he was a very clever dog. Named himself Barney by not coming to anything else after we tried it out (along with some other things). Both were white with a few tan and black patches. I'm allergic to cats so I'd never have one, though I do like some of them when they are other people's. Longest-Running Purchase Streak Whose Sole Unifying Trait Is Record Label: probably something 4AD or Creation related but can't really remember; could be Sire for that matter. If asked to play God, which would you audition for?: Hendrix Number of ECM titles owned: none Elephant Six (or related) Records owned: have NMH album, but later sold it; didn't do anything for me. ===== "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: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 07:18:54 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: What's in a Feg? >Beer: YES. Generally I like aggressive beers -- stouts (ah, the Guinness), porters (Anchor or Sierra Nevada), and IPAs (Three Floyds Alpha King). >Library: MLS, 1996, Indiana University. '96-'99, reference librarian, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta. (see also "current job") (my answer has a "see also" reference -- of COURSE, I'm a librarian!!!) >Glasses: Indispensible. >Sterilized: Haven't tried to make people yet. >Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Virgo, Leo cusp. >Chinese Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Ox. >Married to (Zodiac-wise): (for 3 more days) a Taurus. >Ethnic background: Cracker. British isle mutt, with unconfirmed Cherokee traces. Family name is Anglicized French from way way way back. >Religion: Learning. Grew up Southern Baptist and have escaped. Remain closer to Christ than others (but see also "God audition" below). Currently attending a Vineyard Christian Fellowship church to beneficial effect. >Ill-Advised Facial Hair: I am bearded, and it suits. I did once shave down to a mustache and long chin-hair thing (see my entries on Fegfotos). >Best anagram for full name: 3-way tie at the moment: Counsellee = Ph.D? Yah! Cull ye headphones! Aphyllous; hence, Ed. >Number of times dressed in drag: on film, once. >Least favorite food: Yours. >Last three Halloween costumes: disgruntled uniform-less postal worker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, the guy in the corner drinkin' >Is it safe? >What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? Wire logo. >Feg doppelg"anger: Ed Doxtator (even our cats can't tell us apart!) >How long? 1995 >In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Incompetent drink holder that won't stay in the friggin window. >You gonna eat that? Lordy, could be anything. Lead candidates at time of writing -- potstickers, pizza, curry, Havarti, anything Mexican NOT in a corn tortilla. >Favorite arthropod: aphids. dedicated little guys. >Number of records owned with medusae on cover: 0 at the moment (Submarine Bells did not survive a purge I made 5 years ago for studio-time-money). >Current job: Senior Digital Support Analyst, Endeavor Information Systems () -- a leading library automation system vendor. >Dirtiest job ever held: 2-way tie: * cashier, Kroger (grocery store), July-August '92. * temp (supposed to be office work but moved more and more onto factory floor), White Cap (maker of plastic bottle caps for Ocean Spray, etc.), Nov '99 - Feb '00. >Left or right: Right. >If asked to play God, which would you audition for? Clapton. >Written/depicted on your favorite coffee mug: Ad for "Jesus Peanut Butter Cups" -- see >Picture on office wall: None -- cubicle (and thanks ever so much for bringing THAT up). >Pets/Pets' names: 2 cats, Arisu and Mr. Biscuit (aka Bicky). >Last time entered a WalMart: spring '03, while visiting my sister in Georgia >Number of continents visited: 3 >Default browser home page: >ECM records: 10 (6 Arvo Part, 4 Keith Jarrett) >Robyn fan since: 1989 >Last film seen: In the cinemaaaaaah: Seabiscuit At home: Secretary >Number of Macs owned: To date, none. Will acquire 1 in 2004. >Last CDs purchased: In the midst of a peculiar mail-order binge, so here goes. SACDs: Beck - The Golden Age; Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde; Peter Gabriel - (3), Security, and Up; Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon; The Who - My Generation (Deluxe Edition) DVD-Audio: Bjork - Vespertine garden-variety 44.1kHz stereo: AC/DC : Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and Back In Black Big Black - Pigpile Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality BLONDIE: THE BEST OF BLONDIE Blur - The Great Escape and Blur Kate Bush - The Sensual World (replacing my worn-out cassette) Cheap Trick - 1st album, remastered Cinerama - Va Va Voom The Clash - 1st album, US edition, remastered Shawn Colvin - Steady On Jay Farrar - Sebastopol The Jesus Lizard - Down David Kilgour - A Feather In The Engine Led Zeppelin : Complete Studio Recordings Jack Logan: Mood Elevator Manic Street Preachers: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and Forever Delayed compilation Over The Rhine - Eve The Rutles - Archaelogy Spiritualized - Let It Come Down Stereolab - Sound-Dust Matthew Sweet - Altered Beast Velvet Goldmine (soundtrack) Loudon Wainwright III - The Atlantic Recordings (Rhino Handmade) XTC : Transistor Blast: Best of the BBC Sessions - -- dolph ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:26:56 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Or what about tarot cards with record label logos on them Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > 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 ... I think they called them "pepperpots" in my primary school. How to make one: Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 13:04:24 -0400 From: hb Subject: i'm going home There's a (previously unknown?) RobynH song called "I'm Going Home" posted on the Largo website. Go to: http://www.largo-la.com/largohome.html Click on "audio-video", then click "more" and you'll see it there. (There's also a nice Rickie Lee Jones/Jon Brion cover of The Beatles "For No One" on the same page.) /hal ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 14:33:45 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Rocket From The Tombs dates. argh, no NYC or Philly dates. http://www.projex.demon.co.uk/calendar.html _________________________________________________________________ Try MSN Messenger 6.0 with integrated webcam functionality! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_webcam ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:25:41 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: All hail the new ECM fegs gshell@metronet.com earnestly scribbled: >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. It's in honor of Gerry S. Snyder, father of the owner of the Chesapeake- Potomac Basin Indigenous Peoples*. The elder Snyder died recently after a bout with cancer. He was a minor shareholder in the team and, thus, the team has decided to memorialize him with a patch on all players' uniforms for the duration of the season. * I refuse to call the team by their actual name because of the racism and ignorance inherent in the name. - -- 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, 06 Sep 2003 12:44:51 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: various things (40% Robyn content) Hay, this has probably been mentioned before, but I noticed that Luxor is available in stores now - or, at least, at Everyday Music in Portland, I don't know about anywhere else. Boy, that "sensitive poet" picture of Robyn on the cover is *sure* to generate sales... :P I'm still waffling on whether to pick it up. Just the notion of hearing a tender, heartfelt love song to Michele makes me kind of nauseated. (Where's the bile, Robyn? Yeesh.) And there's so much other stuff I want to get right now too, like the new Quasi album which is coming out on Tuesday. (Sans roxichord, apparently! I don't know about that, either...) I suppose my Robyn loyalty will prevail, though. Speaking of new records, anyone heard the new GBV? I listened to it a couple of times and maybe it's one of those patented GBV "growers," but I didn't care for it at all. Muddy mix, same-y songs. They're playing at a much smaller venue here than where they usually play, which means somebody's probably going to get trampled to death or have their glasses smashed (like me). I'm not sure if I'm going to go. In a little while I'm gonna head downtown to see Carla Bozulich do an in-store with Nels Cline. I hope she's a little less flustered than she was on Thursday night. Maybe playing to a big crowd made her nervous. anyway, n. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with MSN Messenger 6.0 -- download now! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_general ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:14:00 -0700 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: RE: more feg-stats >Number of records with a headless guy on them: 1 >(stranglers' "Black and White") Ooooh! Oooooh! New category: Number of album covers with a (real) guy-less head on the cover: 1 (Naked City's _Grand Guignol_) Pets: Cats: Meuss (Holstein, so-named to rhyme with Seuss, which is his mother's name, and because he was the biggest one in the (adopted, stray) litter - the moose); Malkovich (a very stylish Tuxedo with black tie and tail, but very probably the dumbest cat I've ever known); Chewbacca (a petite Tortoiseshell, who says "Meh?" a lot); Seuss (another tuxedo, with a comical, almost symmetrical white mustache on her upper lip - she's feral, occupies space, sheds, and eats food in my house, but it's a stretch to call her an actual pet; I lured her in to keep nursing her family, which included all three above plus two others. Favorite coffee mug: A vendor-freebie from some lab-equipment company, says "E. Coli Happens" and has one of those little temperature-sensitive regions on it that shows an e. coli bacterium when it's full. Windham Hill records: Hey - the second French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson album is on that label (in the US, anyway), as well as Michael Hedges, so it's not ALL bad. Reward credit cards: Used to have the Apple/Citibank card - which netted a ridiculous 5IVE Percent (not POINT.five, but a whole FIVE) back towards purchase of Apple computer hardware; which I used to get a nice Apple/Sony Trinitron 17" monitor for under a hundred bucks, back in the day when they retailed at over 700. Now, I have a FirstUSA (now absorbed by BankOne) Visa that gets me 1% back on (hanging head in shame) my AOL bills. Last cd purchased: Remaster of Jethro Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery, in order to have it signed by band-members at a show a couple weeks ago. But I'll be picking up the Warren Zevon one any day now, and setting aside a couple boxes of Kleenex to dry my eyes. >Bell peppers showed up on two lists and were also given a >big "yuck" in an unrelated food conversation in my office >today. No love for the bell pepper. Although Catherine >specified "green"... are alternatively-colored bell >peppers acceptable? I like bell peppers just fine, but will note that the orange ones are easily five times tastier than any other color. Anagram: "Avoid tall vandals" is kinda evocative, as are "odd lavalava lints" (lavalava is a word?) and "sativa vandal doll"; but since I've only one "n", none of them will have both "Anal" and "Satan" in 'em - so really, what's the use? da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:22:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: All hail the new ECM fegs Glen Uber wrote: > gshell@metronet.com earnestly scribbled: > >Who or what does [the GSS on the Washington Holocaust > >Victims' jerseys] stand for? > > It's in honor of Gerry S. Snyder, father of the owner of > the Chesapeake-Potomac Basin Indigenous Peoples*. The > elder Snyder died recently after a bout with cancer. He > was a minor shareholder in the team and, thus, the > team has decided to memorialize him with a patch on all > players' uniforms for the duration of the season. That's the first thing about Daniel Snyder I've ever heard that I approved of. ===== "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: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 20:17:59 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Soulseek solution The usual apologies for duplicate posting... Soulseek appeared to have gone down a few days back (DNS server problems). I located a temporary fix. This is from http://slsk.blogspot.com/: "A temporary DNS fix client is available here . I recommend you backup your *.cfg files before you install this, just in case. If clicking directly on the link doesn't work, try right-clicking it and selecting "save...", that should do the trick." Seems to work! ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: Californians invented the concept of the life-style. :: This alone warrants their doom. :: --Don DeLillo, _White Noise_ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 11:08:09 +0100 From: "" Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died Quoting James Dignan : > Wall of Voodoo, IIRC. Surely [Mexican Radio] was at least a minor hit everywhere? I'm certain that I've never heard this title before. I may have heard it in a bar without knowing what it was. > > the latter is Jon Anderson and Vangelis, who here, at least, are far better > known for "I'll find my way home". Only known for that one, I w'd've said. > > the Seekers weren't one hits in the UK (and certainly not the closer you > get to Australia). The Carnival is Over, I'll never find another you, > Georgy Girl and Island of Dreams were all huge hits, to start with (I see > they had six top ten songs in the UK, plus three chart topping EPs). Their family friendly image and sound ensured that they were never off the TV screen in the 1960s UK. "We'll live in a world of our own" and "Morningtown Ride" were also top 3( just checked). But 'Island of dreams' was the Springfields, Dusty's folk-rock group. > > 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? All good entries from a UK perspective. Eb, I've just checked that Tommy James was a 1-hit act in the UK, but according to 'Rock File 4' he had 9 US hits! The only ones I've heard are 'Mony Mony', 'I think we're alone now'and 'Hanky Panky'. - - Mike Godwin n.p. Kyu Sakamoto - - - Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 13:43:34 +0100 (BST) From: crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com Subject: What makes a feg? Beer: Yes please. Got outside several pints of London Pride last night. Also like vodka, gin and good single malts (Oban, Talisker, Singleton, Balvennie) and cocktails...the works really. Library: Mum was a librarian. It's in the blood. Glasses: Yes, but they make me look like 'A German child molester' apparently. So, as John Hegley puts it, I wear contacts and 'Lie about my eyesight.' Sterilized: Nope. But very happy being Uncle Joe. Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Firmly in the cuppa catshit camp on this one. Saggy Hairy Arse, for what it's worth. One of an elite cadre of 12/12ers on the list. Married to (Zodiac-wise): Either Pisces or Gemini, can't remember, and couldn't give a tinker's cuss. Ethnic background: 1/2 Scottish, 1/2 English. Smidgeons of French and Irish. Religion: See, Cuppa Catshit. Ill-Advised Facial Hair: Inherited mum's facial hair gene. Not helpful when you're an actor. Have to stick bits on... Best anagram for full name: Lush joy...then it gets incomprehensible. Number of times dressed in drag: Many. And often been paid for it... Least favorite food/food product: Tapioca (lumpy spunk in a bowl) Favourite grub: Indian (though sang Johnny Cash after my last one...) CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: Jerry Brown Last three Halloween costumes: Grumpy bastard who resents importation of acquisitive American traditions Is it safe? Only if it says Chubb on the front... What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? A quote from As You Like It - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty. Feg Doppelganger? Tony Blackman (ish). OK. Very ish. How long? ...Daddy, How Long? by Ida Cox with Papa Charlie Jackson (1925) Last thing you can remember drawing? A cricket match. In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Just cleaned up, but am heading off on tour today (am in a stage adaptation of Mr Benn. (Remember him UK fegs?), so loads of CD covers and sweet wrappers soon. Didn't drive until this Jan (aged 40). Realised I was missing too many jobs through not being able to. Bought myself a 1965 VW Beetle. I pretend that it's the one you can see on the Abbey Rd cover. You gonna eat that? 'There are children starving in Africa.' 'So what am I supposed to do, Mum? Post it to them...?' Favorite arthropod: Woodlouse Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? No. But was shown around 10 Downing St by a Sir. (Dad of ex-. He was Margaret Thatcher's private secretary...the dad, not the ex...) Number of records owned with medusae on cover: Not sure...got a few mermaids Number of continents visited: 4 Browser home page: www.letsallsingtogether.com Best job held: Plumber on Eastenders... God Job: Played Zeus once. Good fun, except when stage manager wasn't in synch with my thunderbolt-dispatching arm movements. Left me looking a bit silly. Most screwed up job: In an advert for the Daily Mail (a fascist rag) Windham Hill records: Never heard of them. ECM records: A couple... Last CD purchased: Mississippi Sheiks - Sitting On Top Of The World Best recent CD: Blues Goblins (Sam Coomes of Quasi's side project) Eccentric and excellent covers of blues classics such as Spoonful, Hellhound On My Trail and Black Snake Moan. Best album by someone called Lys: Lys Guillorn. I've got it and it's good. Elements of alt.country, indie, singer-songwriter and good pop. Distinctive voice, lyrics and instrumentation. The big names previously noted only guest on a song each. Dead bodies: Yup. Lived on the Thames for 12 years... Swearing tip: Use animals. Current favourites are - 'Fuck a pig' and 'Bag of of dog-shit.' Crowbar Joe ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #337 ********************************