From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #348 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, September 17 2003 Volume 12 : Number 348 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Upcoming REAP? [Ken Weingold ] Re: Upcoming REAP? [Ken Weingold ] the bottom line [mike hooker ] vanilla, quotes, names [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] REAP ["Maximilian Lang" ] He's not a reptile ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: He's not a reptile [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: He's not a reptile [Jeff Dwarf ] And it burns, burns, burns ["Glen Uber" ] Re: once more onto the beach, etc. ["Matt Sewell" ] Tsars, ostriches, dope, guns... ["Matt Sewell" ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] The Only Ones ["Brian" ] reap (belated) ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Quizmania! ["Glen Uber" ] Re: Quizmania! [Eb ] Re: The Only Ones [Tom Clark ] A friend recommends a page from The Onion [Munki1972@yahoo.com] reap? ["Glen Uber" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:14:57 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Upcoming REAP? On Mon, Sep 15, 2003, maximilian lang wrote: > http://www.bottomlinecabaret.com/ > > Great timing, if It happens I hope it's after > Halloween. Ken, do you have any word on this? I'm looking into it. Gordon (Allan's son) and I talk through IM fairly often, so I will ask when I see him on. I should have info by tomorrow. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:30:37 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Upcoming REAP? Well I just spoke to Gordon very briefly. According to him it has to do with the new NYU "regime". I asked about the Halloween show and he said he has no idea. There will be benefits soon I'm sure. Please everyone around NY support it. I'm sure David Johanson will play. And Woj, I wouldn't be surprised if Jane Siberry does as well. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:54:59 -0400 From: mike hooker Subject: the bottom line hi, sad indeed if the bottom line closes. we should all do what we can to help, even if its just a few minutes writing a letter. the state of entertainment in NYC is bad, getting worse. you can be sure clear channel and all the other whores are drooling at the impending demise of a small club. i wrote the following letter to NYU, could some of you do the same, share your experience . - ------------ Good evening, A quick note regarding the Bottom Line. Business is business, and I'm sure i know very little regarding the operation of the club. I do know that it is more than a club, its an asset to the village as a whole. My daughter is a senior at NYU, College of Arts and Sciences. I am firm in my belief that the club had a substantial influence in her decision to attend NYU. She was there many times, as a teenager, probably the only club in the city that allowed kids to be in a civilized adult popular music environment. Bringing her ( and my other daughter) to the club allowed me to show them how to go out , have a great time, yet behave responsibly . Now i dont worry when they are out, they know how to conduct themselves, not abuse alcohol, to truly enjoy what the city has to offer. Hopefully, one of those things will always be the Bottom Line . I seem to recall a few years ago NYU purchasing a supermarket( on LaGuardia Place?) that was closing, deeming it an asset to the area. Surely, if the school can plunk down 14 million( the number i recall) for a supermarket, some kind of accord can be made to keep the club open. I know they dont often book the kind of acts most undergrads would go to, but i think there are a lot of alumni attending regularly. Thanks for your time, and please give consideration to all the issues regarding the club. thanks - ----------------------------------------- let hope for the best. i'm not a sentimental guy, but i would be real sad to see it go. i had a lot of good times there. have fun, Mike Hooker please see my music trading list at: http://hometown.aol.com/mhooker216/myhomepage/index.html being AOL, its doesnt always work. try later, or ask for a list ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:06:40 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: vanilla, quotes, names >> let it be bandied around for years, and come up with the most distilled >> down name you can think of (the Washington Vanilla, for example) > >Yes, but given the etymology of "vanilla," I'm sure *someone* might be >offended... Hm, maybe. Especially considering the slang use of that word in certain quarters of society, shall we say (I know we had one prominent list-member in years gone by who would probably, erm, dodge the use of that term if possible). - --- >Quoting James Dignan : > >> Favorite playground game: eyeing little girls with bad intent >> >> Favorite Star Wars line: "I know." >> >> First album ever owned: By "owned" I take it you mean "purchased," rather >than "given to as gift"? I think that would be _In the Year 2525_ by Zager & >Evans - unless that's too embarrassing, in which case it'd be _Billion >Dollar Babies_ by Alice Cooper. erm, although I wish I'd written the first one of these answers, I cannot claim responsibility for any of them. And I've never owned any Alice Cooper. Sorry! >(b) the same "eats shoots and leaves" joke Rick...I mean, Rex...mentioned - A variantion on this is (was) a common t-shirt in this part of the world, featuring a picture of the flightless bird that is our national symbol, with the written comment "The kiwi eats roots and leaves". Then again, you don't have that use of the word root in the US either, do you...? - --- >>>I was surprised to hear there were other pronunciations than MEEgun. >>>It's the only one you regularly hear here (I think I once heard MEGGun, >>>but that's a distinct rarity) > >Innaresting. So famous Megans from other regions would be called Meegan as >well? Can't think of many right now, but actresses Megan Mullaly and Megyn >Price are definitely not Meeg's. there are almost certainly a few famous Australians called Megan. Very common name in Oz. >The name that's thrown me and the wife in recent years is "Tara". One of >our British friends started dating and eventually married a Tara, and he >pronounced her name "Tah-ruh", but we didn't know for some time if it might >not actually be pronounced as in "Terra" (cf. acrtress Tara Reid, I think). >Accent aside, he had it right, it seems. Among my work contacts are two >Taras, each favoring differing pronunciations, although we're starting to >suspect the one who says "Terra" might spell it that way too. again, never heard it pronounced any way other than as "Tah-ruh" (the original Irish way, ISTR - can't remember how it's pronounced in "Gone with the wind", which probably added to its popularity). Certainly I've never heard it pronounced "Terra". Did you never watch the Avengers? James (not 100% vanilla himself - but that's another story) 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: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:21:40 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: REAP If a women's soccer league folded in America would anyone notice? http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/wusa/2003-09-15-wusa-folds_x.htm Max _________________________________________________________________ Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:09:35 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: He's not a reptile JeFFrey: >>> Last living reptile encountered: >>Small brown frog Errrr.. amphibian? ___ From Ross T: Mothers maiden name: Rexrode Town where I was born: Cumberland, Maryland Last four digits of credit card: 7734 Three digit "check number": 666 Issuing company: Beelzebank ________ gSs: >>if i ever send more than one reply, always use the one that is the least >>personally offensive, unless I include something that is also offensive to >>any entire group. Since we are now allowed to specify how our posts are to be interpreted, let me just say that mine are usually just as offensive as they seem, and you should go ahead and assume the worst. Unless you perceive a personal slight. There are only three of you I intentionally malign. E-mail me privately to see if you're on the list.* ___________ The Virgin Megastore in Burbank is completely sold out of three of the last four Cash albums. That's Burbank, California we're talking about there. How about that? Age at which you purchased your first Johnny Cash album? 17 First Warren Zevon album? Same First Robyn Hitchcock album? 16 Most glaring ommission from your record collection in Feg terms? Prolly Fairport Convention (some on the Richard Thompson comp but that's it) Feggy touchstone artist you dismissed or ignored until recently for reasons now unclear to you, and when you relented? Probably T-Rex (first purchased in 1998); closer to the fegmark, Roxy Music (first purchased 1996) Most recent album purchased which was also owned by your Mom or Dad? Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads (although I started thinking about this because of the Highwaymen) Shot a man in Reno just to? Emulate Johnny Cash. If I was a little younger I'm sure I woulda had to go to Detroit and do something Eminem made me think was cool. If they freed you from that prison, if that railroad train was yours? That would be sweet. - -Rex, obviously still working on getting over this *Dude, just kidding. Don't you dare! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:48:49 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: He's not a reptile Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > JeFFrey: > >>> Last living reptile encountered: > >>Small brown frog > > Errrr.. amphibian? Doesn't know what medusae are; confuses amphibians with reptiles; was inexcusably drag-ass in obtaining _Luxor_...damn, we'd better drum this clown from the list. ..Jeff, who wisely abstained from the bee/hornet/wasp/yellowjacket/etc. discussion a few months back. All I know is, most of them are names of truly execrable musical acts. J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: we make everything you need, and you need everything we make ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:57:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: He's not a reptile Mothers maiden name: Jolley Town where I was born: Pullman, Washington, home of Washington State University Last four digits of credit card: 8675 Three digit "check number": 309 Issuing company: Jenny's Bank and Drywall if i ever send more than one reply, always use the one that is the least personally offensive, unless I include something that is also offensive toany entire group.: Fuck y'all with a big rusty iron dick. Age at which you purchased your first Johnny Cash album? 29 First Warren Zevon album? 30 First Robyn Hitchcock album? 19 Most glaring ommission from your record collection in Feg terms? Cap'n Beefheart or Randy Newman (I guess) Feggy touchstone artist you dismissed or ignored until recently for reasons now unclear to you, and when you relented? Zevon Most recent album purchased which was also owned by your Mom or Dad? Paul Simon _Graceland_ Shot a man in Reno just to? He was going to be a star. If they freed you from that prison, if that railroad train was yours? I'd make sure to not be standing on the tracks when it passed. === The kind people have a wonderful dream. Who's on the guillotine? Dr. Phil What difference does it make? It makes none. Why Can't I Be You? Because this horse is way beyond bludgeoned at this point. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:49:36 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: And it burns, burns, burns Mothers maiden name: Haney Town where I was born: Santa Rosa, California, birthplace of Julie London and Rebecca DeMornay. Childhood home of NFL hall of famer, Ernie Nevers. Adopted home of Jack London, Luther Burbank, Robert Ripley, Charles Schulz, Fred MacMurray, Harry Morgan, Robin Williams, Joe Montana and Jack Blades. Former training camp site of the Oakland Raiders. Last four digits of credit card: 1655 Three digit "check number": 281 Issuing company: The Left Banke if i ever send more than one reply, always use the one that is the least personally offensive, unless I include something that is also offensive toany entire group.: You tiny-minded wipers of other people's bottoms! Age at which you purchased your first Johnny Cash album? 18. First Warren Zevon album? 17. First Robyn Hitchcock album? 20. Most glaring ommission from your record collection in Feg terms? REM Feggy touchstone artist you dismissed or ignored until recently for reasons now unclear to you, and when you relented? Grant Lee Phillips or Nick Drake. Most recent album purchased which was also owned by your Mom or Dad? Probably Willie Nelson's "Greatest Hits and Some That Will Be" Shot a man in Reno just to? Impress Jodie Foster. If they freed you from that prison, if that railroad train was yours? I'd walk along the top of it like they do in the movies. The kind people have a wonderful dream. Who's on the guillotine? The people responsible for infomercials. What difference does it make? A little if you do it by yourself, a lot if you work with others. Why Can't I Be You? Because I won't let you. - -- Cheers! - -g- "There are only 3 types of people in the world: Morons, assholes, and people you can hang out with. I don't give a fuck if you're black, white, Asian, Arab, male, female, gay or straight. It's all just morons, assholes, and people you can hang out with." --Joe Rogan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:54:13 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: once more onto the beach, etc. Finally couldn't resist... >Favorite playground game: Superheroes... I can still smell the weirdly plastic/cheesy batman mask... >Favorite Star Wars line: "The more you tighten your grip the more star systems will slip through your fingers" >First album ever owned: One of the Beatles rock'n'roll compilations, for Christmas 1981. I really couldn't understand my classmates' ignorance of the Beatles or, more galling, their love for Adam & The Ants... >Celebrities you look like: None, really, though Jim Davies was kind enough to suggest Brian Eno the other day, I have to say I lack his sinister look and from the look of me one can see I'm way ahead of him in the cake-eating stakes... :0( >Favorite joke: What's red and invisible? No tomatoes. >Favorite literary device: I dunno what it would be called, but in Slaughterhouse 5, KV tells the reader the last three words of the novel in the first chapter... >How do you think you will die: If the job I'm in now gets any more dull, probably self-defenestration... >Favorite element: one of those ones that spend most of the time in another universe, though created for fractions of a millisecond in a laboratory in, oh I dunno, let's say Holland... >Favorite Ninja Turtle: Tintoretto >Favorite thing your mom threw away without asking: My bed! My fantastic double bed! I think she was hinting (ie. stop sleeping with girls; move out!). >Conan O'Brien or Craig Kilborn? Wha? >The one musical act whose popularity you just don't "get": How long have you got? I think maybe the one most pertinent to this list would probably be The Flaming Lips. >Do you like it when I do that? It makes me cry (in a good way) >Last hat you wore: last one I wore regularly was a Greek fisherman's cap in 1993; last one I wore full stop was The Boy Cornelius' leather cowboy hat. >Axe(s): A Samick 12 string accoustic (cheap but good); a Takamine EG330 accoustic (mmm... gorgeous); a modern American Tele (b&w), which, to my shame is ungigged. >Able to sleep on airplanes: barely able to go on planes at all! >Habitual jewelry: My *exact replica* Jim Morrison beads >Favorite curry: mutter paneer (cheesy peas!); saag aloo; tarka dhal; brinjal bargia >Earliest childhood bedspread you can recall: Save the Whale - blue whale depicted thereon... It's been a lifelong hobby ever since - whale saving - - I now have 5 (and they're stinking the place out!). >Last living reptile encountered: A wild tortoise in mainland Greece, 1997 >Siblings and your place among them: Eldest of three, followed by my sister and then my bro... >Sexual orientation and number of times you've strayed from it: Straight and never strayed, which in some ways I think is a shame, but I just don't think I could - certainly never in my life seen a man about whom I've thought "hmm...". >In old cartoons and stuff whenever the parent is about to spank the kid he always says "This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you"... how does he figure? Never happened to me - the only one I remember is, when crying over something fairly petty, my parents threated to give me "something to cry about"! >Grandparents' first names: Daisy/Eleanor; Sydney/Hank, Muriel, Frank - strange that both g/parents on the Etheridge side changed their names... >Thumb: not really anymore - last time I used it was to hitch from Oxford to Cambridge (actually was heading to Elm near Wisbech). >Good friend you wish you'd done it with at least once but never did, and where are they now? Yes, but I think these things are best forgotten - perhaps if it had come to pass, I wouldn't be with my girlfriend of 8 years... which really wouldn't do! >Snack food you're pissed off they don't make any more: Wagon Wheels are much smaller these days and Golden Nuggets, sugariest kid-brek of the 70s returned only recently, unfortunately made by Nestle, whose products I embargo... >Who do you think killed JFK? Wasn't it P2, the Knights of St John, the Bavarian Illuminati, the Rosicrucians, Richard Nixon, the International Banking Conspiracy or the Space Aliens? >Sport: Sorry, no. Cheers Matt - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have more fun with your mobile - add polyphonic ringtones, java games, celebrity voicemails and loads more! Click here for phone fun. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:08:46 +0200 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: He's not a reptile On Martedl, set 16, 2003, at 03:09 Europe/Rome, Rex.Broome wrote: > Most recent album purchased which was also owned by your Mom or Dad? > Marty > Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads (although I started thinking about this > because > of the Highwaymen) > My grandfather had this (and all the albums of the Sons of the Pioneers) and when I was about 18 I taped them all. Still have those casettes and listen to 'em every once in a while. - - ethyl, who's not going to be trapped in to all that other info except to say that my music collection is probably very un-feggy as it contains predominantly early music, romanian or balkan casettes purchased during travels, all the firesign theater reissues and the original vinyl (including spin-offs like Phil Austin), lots of ambient/electronic stuff and a heavy dose of meloncholic/near suicidal sounding male singer songwriters (I STILL love Nick Cave). And I never saw a Star Wars movie - for obvious reasons (to me) as they are not, to my knowledge, black and white and made in eastern europe or russia/ussr/former soviet republics (love that Kazak new wave cinema) and bleak with a capital B. ************************************** "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." ************************************** C. Galbraith / Ketone Press meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:35:16 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Tsars, ostriches, dope, guns... Robert Anton Wilson is standing for Gov of Cal, for the Guns'n'dope Party... http://www.maybelogic.com/rawgov.html Cheers Matt - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thinking of changing jobs? Click here to search through thousands of vacancies. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:20:33 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap Ken Kifer -- probably (bike advocate, killed by a drunk driver, but the police aren't sure it was him: ) See also Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:32:58 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: The Only Ones I just discovered this band. How the hell did I miss them before? Good stuff! - -Nuppy - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:40:39 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap (belated) Shooby Taylor. Some time back in June Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:09:19 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Quizmania! Has anyone collected all the fegquiz questions up to this point in one file? I'd love to send them around to other people but don't want to annoy them with multiple emails. - -- Cheers! - -g- "In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are Consequences." - --R.G. Ingersoll ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:51:48 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Quizmania! >Has anyone collected all the fegquiz questions up to this point in one >file? I'd love to send them around to other people You are a cruel, cruel man. The last foot I walked on: the right one. The last time I wished this thread would end: moments ago. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:30:44 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: The Only Ones on 9/16/03 9:32 AM, Brian at nightshadecat@mailbolt.com wrote: > I just discovered this band. How the hell did I miss them before? Good > stuff! > Godwin can probably give you a decent background on them. I discovered them around 1989 when the Replacements were covering "Another Girl, Another Planet" on their tour. Really good stuff. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:38:25 -0500 From: Munki1972@yahoo.com Subject: A friend recommends a page from The Onion [IMAGE] Jeff Dwarf at Munki1972@yahoo.com recommends a page from The Onion. The recommended page is: The Onion | History Of Rock Written By The Losers http://www.theonion.com/3936/top_story.html ******************************************************************** You are receiving this email because your friend Jeff Dwarf at Munki1972@yahoo.com sent it to you. If you do not wish to receive emails like this, please contact your friend. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:49:42 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: reap? Bush's presidency? - -- 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 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #348 ********************************