From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #367 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, October 4 2003 Volume 12 : Number 367 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Warning: Music Geek Content ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Warning: Music Geek Content [Eb ] Married? Yeah, mallied! [glen (') ] Re: The Sting Thing (and an frightening journey thru alien terrain) [Aar] The Police [John Barrington Jones ] Next Week's Dates? [FSThomas ] Re: Oily Bo-Hunks [Tom Clark ] Re: Oily Bo-Hunks [glen (') ] Re: Oily Bo-Hunks [Eb ] RE: Married? Yeah, mallied! ["Rex.Broome" ] not a reap, but an OD at least ["Jason R. Thornton" ] RE: Married? Yeah, mallied! [glen (') ] Belated semi-obscure Reap [Tom Clark ] Guardian list ["Rex.Broome" ] Fogeymaniax! ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Fogeymaniax! [glen (') ] Which Hallowed Set? [] RE: Fogeymaniax! ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Sting/annoying songs [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] top 40/top 20 [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] RE: 40 UK [Dr John Halewood ] Re: Which Hallowed Set? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Fogeymaniax: Chief Influences on the Unemployed Bassists of Los A ngeles ["Rex.Broome" ] RE: Fogeymaniax! [Sweet & Tender Hooligan ] RE: top 40/top 20 [Sweet & Tender Hooligan ] Re: not a reap, but an OD at least [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: VCR Alert [HSatterfld@aol.com] REAP ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: [loud-fans] John Bartlett's swap-mix CD [John ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:57:26 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Warning: Music Geek Content Eb: >>Bleh. This is music-geek stuff. Ummm... it's Feg O'Clock... do you know where you are? That's right. You are here. >>Eb, half-engaged Half-congratulations! What's the half-date? - -Rex, fully married ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:46:22 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Warning: Music Geek Content >Eb: >>>Bleh. This is music-geek stuff. > >Ummm... it's Feg O'Clock... do you know where you are? That's right. You >are here. And the topic was film, not music. > >>Eb, half-engaged > >Half-congratulations! What's the half-date? Lordy, that joke was so obvious that I wonder why you bothered. Eb PS This scared me: http://www.madonnashots.com/bmw18.jpg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:49:50 -0700 From: glen (') Subject: Married? Yeah, mallied! On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:57:26 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: > -Rex, fully married Fortunately, I haven't had my fill yet. But it has been only 3 years and 10 days. I did get my first toilet seat lecture a couple weeks back, though. - -- Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:50:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: The Sting Thing (and an frightening journey thru alien terrain) On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > > 19 My Love Is Like... Wo, Mya > (I can't count accurately, because I have no idea whether "Wo, Mya" is > one person, two people, or a band), Unfortunately, it's a song called "My Love Is Like... Wo" by Mya. She means "... Whoa". It's onomatopoeia, so I suppose the 'right' spelling is somewhat meaningless, and yet hearing that song really depressed me. (Well, it also sucked.) > Black Eyed Peas (the only act I've heard anything about that > might make me want to check them out), There's also enough Sean Paul in the Beyonce song to make it worth hearing. But I like Sean Paul (now that I no longer subconsciously believe he's either Puff Daddy or the Pope). a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:51:42 -0700 (PDT) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: The Police I traded in all my loose Police cds and got the Message In A Box. While I don't worship The Police, I do think of them as a latter-day Beatles. Sting, meanwhile, has fallen off my radar. The last cd of his that I remember liking is Ten Summoners Tales. I don't own it though. I do find him very pretentious. I heard an NPR interview with him on Tuesday that made my blood start to boil. =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 17:56:25 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Next Week's Dates? I'm looking at the Auditorium now, and does anyone have *any* idea what the venue is for the Wednesday October 8th gig in Athens is? There's *two* shows on the 9th. one is the at 7:30 (for $5) and is "Athens 441" with the following lineup: Madeline Adams Tenderdess Green Lawns (All from Athens) Dengue Fever Robyn Hitchcock (who's listed as sharing top billing with Dengue Fever...) Later that night is the Tour de Sprawl at the 40 Watt, but he's not slated to go on until 11:30. I don't know if I can convince my chaperone into staying out that late, though... - -ferris. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 14:58:35 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Oily Bo-Hunks on 10/3/03 2:49 PM, glen (') at apostrophe@cruxofthebiscuit.com wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:57:26 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: > >> -Rex, fully married > > Fortunately, I haven't had my fill yet. But it has been only 3 years > and 10 days. I did get my first toilet seat lecture a couple weeks > back, though. You obviously don't have sisters, or that would have been beaten into you a long time ago. Speaking of Glen and toilet matters, how's the sperm purge going? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:31:14 -0700 From: glen (') Subject: Re: Oily Bo-Hunks On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 14:58:35 -0700, Tom Clark wrote: > Speaking of Glen and toilet matters, how's the sperm purge going? It's a long, hard battle but I am overcoming the obstacles and seem to be beating the stiff odds. - -- 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: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:34:06 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Oily Bo-Hunks >It's a long, hard battle but I am overcoming the obstacles and seem to >be beating the stiff odds. Tee hee hee...you said "obstacles." :) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:55:32 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: RE: Married? Yeah, mallied! >>I did get my first toilet seat lecture a couple weeks back, though. Ouch. I had four 1/2 years of cohabitation under my belt before the wedding, so I was pretty well toilet-trained. It's taking longer with the little girls, though. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:41:40 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: not a reap, but an OD at least http://apnews.myway.com//article/20031003/D7TURLFG0.html Way to go, Courtney. Didn't see that one coming. OK, I did. I just didn't think it'd take so long. I like the police. Up your nose with a rubber hose, Natalie Jane Jacobs! LA rules! I'm voting for Arnold, just because he's the most Hollywood. Oh, and somebody tell the Guardian that Bowie's eyes are the same fucking colo(u)r. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:42:19 -0700 From: glen (') Subject: RE: Married? Yeah, mallied! On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:55:32 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: > Ouch. I had four 1/2 years of cohabitation under my belt before the > wedding, so I was pretty well toilet-trained. It's taking longer with the > little girls, though. Carol and I lived together nearly 4 years before we got married and it's never really been an issue. I admit I have gotten lazy about it and she called me on it. - -- 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: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:51:45 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Belated semi-obscure Reap O.J. Simpson's buddy Robert Kardashian, 59 http://tinyurl.com/pnfy - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:13:22 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Guardian list I'll be brief. Got records by: 10 (half-points each for Topley-Bird & Gibbons) Got most recent release by: 2 Would list in my top 100 artists: 4 (at most) Never heard of: 11 - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:00:19 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Fogeymaniax! JeFFrey: >>Lord High Demon Foulmaster, the multi-dimensional entity that farts on buses >>and creates public mistrust of their seatmates? I first envisioned this giant guy farting *upon* the buses themselves, like, on the roof while straddling them or something, as opposed to your retrospectively obvious intention that he's farting *whilst riding on* buses as an invisible passenger. No real point, just wanted to share the alternate image. >>I hadn't realized just how far outside the mainstream I'd gone. If you'd've >>asked, I'd've said that I'd maybe know only four or five songs in the top 20. >>But geez: of the 30 or so named people or acts mentioned above (I can't >>count accurately, because I have no idea whether "Wo, Mya" is one person, >>two people, or a band), I've even *heard of* only (etc.) Yeah. Bad news for us. The other thing that's odd is that the only examples of what we traffick in 'round here (guitar-based pop music, for lack of a mo' betta term) are bands whose records I'd bet *none* of us have (Santana being a possible exception*) or even think of as currently active, much less massively popular. Not that I expect to see the New Pornographers on there or anything, but, really, 3 Doors Down still exists? And charts *singles*? Might we feel a little less out of touch if we examine the top 20 Albums? Let's just see: 1 OutKast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 2 Dave Matthews, Some Devil 3 Limp Bizkit, Results May Vary 4 R. Kelly, The R. In R&B Collection: Volume One 5 Obie Trice, Cheers 6 Nickelback, The Long Road 7 DMX, Grand Champ 8 Murphy Lee, Da Skool Boy Presents Murphy's Law 9 John Mayer, Heavier Things 10 Hilary Duff, Metamorphosis 11 Rob Zombie, Past, Present & Future 12 Beyonce, Dangerously In Love 13 Alan Jackson, Greatest Hits Volume II And Some Other Stuff 14 A Perfect Circle, Thirteenth Step 15 Fuel, Natural Selection 16 Chingy, Jackpot 17 Erykah Badu, World Wide Underground (EP) 18 Evanescence, Fallen 19 Soundtrack, The Fighting Temptations 20 Seal, Seal IV Aha! I've heard of every single one of them except Obie Trice and Murphy Lee! But I must say I have not even the slightest interest in any of them except, oddly, the record at #1, and in fact I find at least four of them downright execrable. I occasionally face a similar litmus test of foggeydom when trolling the musicians wanted/musicians available ads for bassists or whatever. There's always a new band or three of whom I've *never* heard, yet who are listed by *everyone* as an influence. Last time around it was some folks called Thrice and The Used. Where do people even hear this shit? - -Rex "and oh yeah, and my list of influences packs 'em in, lemme tellya" Broome *didn't know Santana was on the feglist, didja? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:02:37 -0700 From: glen (') Subject: Re: Fogeymaniax! On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:00:19 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: > 5 Obie Trice, Cheers Isn't the name "Obie Trice" mentioned in the sample at the beginning of Eminem's "Without Me"? > 16 Chingy, Jackpot I have no idea who this is. > The Used. Where do people even hear this shit? All I know about The Used is that they are the latest in a long line of punk-lite bands from Utah. And one of the dudes in the band dated Kelly Osbourne for awhile. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Soylens Viridis Homines Est" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:39:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Subject: Which Hallowed Set? Well, I managed to get myself, almost all of my junk, and my dog up to nyc from Atlanta in my '88 Honda... and boy, is my flagellum tired. Luckily I have lots of indulgent Brooklyn friends to stay with 'til I find a gig and a place to live. It feels great to have migrated north just as the finest season of the year begins, and the seasonal savor is only increased by the prospect of seeing RH on Halloween. Thing is, this is the first time I've ever had the luxury of choosing between an early and a late Robyn set. There's an unmissable party that night, so I won't be able to see both sets. It's either early set, off to party, or off to party, late set. I'm havin' trouble deciding... do any of you who've seen him in the double-set format have any empirical wisdom to impart? Does he hold back his dk. grn. energy for the late sets, generally? Is there usually a big setlist difference? (I suppose I COULD go to both shows and just show up at the party very late...) A friend here told me the Bottom Line got a reprieve from NYU... bright lights, glazed-over eyes, JPL ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:29:48 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: RE: Fogeymaniax! Glen on The Used: >>And one of the dudes in the band dated Kelly Osbourne for awhile. That's exactly the information my bandmate provided on those guys. Now, if that many kids are that eager to get into Kelly Osbourne's pants, then, well, obviously, I weep for humanity, but I would also hasten to point out to them that there are probably way easier ways to achieve it then by forming a band. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 12:24:09 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Sting/annoying songs I'd like to quote one of the funniest things I've ever read on the feglist - - from one Michael Wells, back sometime in the late 1990s: "A fairly convincing argument could be brought that the story of Sting's musical career is the story of England...once small, edgy, and interesting, evolving to a world-influencing entity before collapsing in a morass of bickering, meaningless self-involvement and general wussiness. " >> Show of hands: who here even really likes the Police? I'm not talking >> about punk roots or street cred or anything in comparison to solo Sting... >> just, do you like to listen to them? I've never found them especially >> interesting or exciting. >> > >I like their first two albums. That's about it. I'd go a bit further than that and say that sizable proportions of Sting's first solo album were pretty good. After that, though... ehh. Don't listen to them much these dasys, though. The style hasn't aged well. >> It's hard to put a finger on why I switch the station >> every time a Sting or John Mayer song comes on the radio, >> but I think it's because it's bland and accessible. Both >> can be used as sort of elevator music for sophisticated >> people. Smooth jazzy flourishes, breathy voices, warm >> images, yuk. Cool! They're playing "I'm Into Something >> Good" on the oldies station. > >"Your Body is a Wonderland" also, as one of my co-workers >pointed out to me one morning, sounds mysteriously like >Extreme's "More Than Words," if not in production, that >surely in pseudo-edgy blandness. on the subject of vaguely annoying songs that sound mysteriously like other things. I was in a shop yesterday that had Robbie Williams' "Let me entertain you" on the sound system, and I was struck by how much it sounds like an out-take from "Jesus Christ Superstar". Very reminiscent of "Heaven on their minds". Anyone else notice that? 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, 4 Oct 2003 12:24:31 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: top 40/top 20 >At 12:31 PM 10/3/2003 -0700, Eb wrote: >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/page/0,10607,1053415,00.html >> >>An interesting list, in that I'm not even familiar with a large >>number of the names. > >Wow, I've enhanced my fogey credentials mightily -- I have only heard of >19, and have knowingly heard music by only 15. In fact, I'm clueless >about their #1 pick (the Libertines). Miles, you're not alone. I've heard 15 of them (and it's good to see some of them on there - I was won over to Lemon Jelly at the beginning of this year, f'rinstance) and am aware of half a dozen more. But some of them left me scratching my head. Ah well, more to seek and listen to, I suppose... Good list though, from what I know of it. I suspect that the skew of this list is a little nearer feg taste than many such '40 best' lists might be. No boybands, no girlbands, little if any rap or hip hop - this is largely an indie-oriented top 40. >>Hey, a good week for intentional misspellings though! 45%! > >Good catch. :) > >Beyonce's "Crazy in Love" has gotta be my guilty-pleasure hit of the >year. Still not sick of it. Work it, girl! heh. The video is a guilty pleasure of mine! Not for nothing has she been nicknamed "Bouncy". For the most part, though, that top 20 is - from what I've heard of it (about eight or nine tracks - very samey. Very little to distinguish any one song over any other. Perhaps I'm just getting old. Or perhaps it's always been that ay and my mind's only picking out the highlights. Maybe any top 20 picked at random from pop history would only have a couple of stand-out tracks, and a lot of fluff. 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, 4 Oct 2003 01:42:44 +0100 From: Dr John Halewood Subject: RE: 40 UK Eb scribbled: > An interesting list, in that I'm not even familiar with a large > number of the names. > > No Hitch, but that's no surprise. Might gripe more about the missing > Costello, Orton, Supergrass, Badly Drawn Boy, Black Box Recorder.... I was kinda curious about it this morning when it arrived through the letterbox. I would say that more than anything it's a very short-sighted list, which seems to forget about anyone who hasn't released a record in the last year. I'd also guess that Robert Wyatt's appearance is probably entirely due to the fact that he's just released a new album (and seeing as that's his first for 6 years, just how much does that make him an "influential contempory act" that the article suggests is its criteria?) Perhaps more interestingly though was this snippet from the previous day's Guardian, entitled "Fresh Beefheart" (bio bit snipped) "Other than those caused by death, the longest and most profound silence in popular music has been that of Don Van Vliet, the maverick blues-rock musician known to the more adventurous fans of 60s and 70s music as Captain Beefheart [...] now fellow adherents can enjoy their hero on record once again. Captain Beefheart provides the epilogue to a CD titled Where We Live, released to benefit Earth Justice, a campaign for the universal right to clean air and clean water, including performances by the likes of Lou Reed, Tina Tuner, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson and the Neville Brothers - an a cappella version of Happy Birthday. Retitled Happy Earthday, it lasts a mere 38 seconds, but provides solid evidence that, should he ever decide to resume his musical career, the Captains unique larynx is in fine shape." cheers john np Hawkwind - "Uncle Sam's on Mars" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:51:46 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Which Hallowed Set? >From: >Subject: Which Hallowed Set? >Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:39:16 -0400 (EDT) >Thing is, this >is the first time I've ever had the luxury of choosing between an early >and a late Robyn set. There's an unmissable party that night, so I won't >be able to see both sets. It's either early set, off to party, or off to >party, late set. I'm havin' trouble deciding... do any of you who've >seen him in the double-set format have any empirical wisdom to impart? >Does he hold back his dk. grn. energy for the late sets, generally? Is >there usually a big setlist difference? (I suppose I COULD go to both >shows and just show up at the party very late...) Ummm, your telling the mid-atlantic Fegs that the show isn't the big unmissible party? Will be at both sets, Max _________________________________________________________________ Get MSN 8 Dial-up Internet Service FREE for one month. Limited time offer-- sign up now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:37:15 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Fogeymaniax: Chief Influences on the Unemployed Bassists of Los A ngeles Look upon my works, ye feggy, and weep. * = never heard of them. ** = heard of but never heard. $ = suck. $$= suck ass out loud. Cited by FOUR bassists: Thrice Cited by TWO bassists: Audioslave Blindside* Deftones $ Foo Fighters Glassjaw* Manson (Marilyn, presumably) $$ Perfect Circle $ Queens of the Stone Age Radiohead Soulfly* Tool $ Cited by ONE bassist: 311 $ 7 Fold* AC/DC Avenged* Beastie Boys Bjork Branch, Michelle Cavein* The Clash Cradle of Filth** Dimmu B* Dream Theater** Emperor* Enanitos* Gate, Benjamin* Genesis (early only) $ Helmet $ Hendrix, Jimi Incubus $$ JEW (?)* KillswitchEngage (may be two bands?)* Korn $$$ Led Zepplin Little Caesar** Maiden (presumably Iron) Mana** Marillion** Mars Volta Metallica Mudvayne** (and almost surely $$) Murderdolls* MXPX My Bloody Valentine Opeth* Ours* Pantera $ Pastorius, Jaco Plumb* Poison the Well* Pop, Iggy Primus $ (by own admision) PTW* Red Hot Chili Peppers (mildly $) The Roots Rufio* Rush $ Scorpions (old only) $ Slayer $ Slipknot $$ Social Distortion Something Corporate** Spoon Symphony X* Syndrome of a Downs $$ Threshold* Transatlantic* Trout, Walter* Velvet Underground Verdes* White Stripes The Who X Yellowcard* Zombie, Rob $ Zyklon** Some of these appear to be self-ghetto-ized born-again bands or rock-en-espanol, so who knows. But still... yuck. Also, please explain this shit: "Bass player for poppunk band turned emo. " I just wanna know what constituted the radical stylistic retooling this required. Also, please kill me. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:00:05 -0700 From: Sweet & Tender Hooligan Subject: RE: Fogeymaniax! > Last time around it was some folks called > Thrice and The Used. Where do people even hear this shit? Never hoid o' Thrice, but my little brother (22 years old) is a fanatical follower of The Used. About a month ago he made me sit and listen to their record - not disgustipatin', but I certainly wouldn't buy it. Dark, hard stuff with vocals that alternate between that scratchy whisper-scream thing and wannabe-operatic wailing. Anyway, my brother's convinced they're the Next Big Thing. = s&th hooligan@apostate.com www.jaquelinerose.com "You make movies because you need to make movies. Everything else is unimportant. If you wait to get the money to make a movie, then you shouldn't make the movie. If you need distribution in place before you have the courage to make a movie, then it's not a movie worth making. [...] You make movies to lose your money. That's the purpose of making a movie - to put your life into something - not to get something out of it." - John Cassavetes ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:01:39 -0700 From: Sweet & Tender Hooligan Subject: RE: Fogeymaniax! > > 5 Obie Trice, Cheers > > Isn't the name "Obie Trice" mentioned in the sample > at the beginning of Eminem's "Without Me"? Aye. "Real name, no gimmicks!" > > 16 Chingy, Jackpot > > I have no idea who this is. "I like it when you do dat right thurr, right thurr!" Oy. Now I feel sick. = s&th hooligan@apostate.com www.jaquelinerose.com "You make movies because you need to make movies. Everything else is unimportant. If you wait to get the money to make a movie, then you shouldn't make the movie. If you need distribution in place before you have the courage to make a movie, then it's not a movie worth making. [...] You make movies to lose your money. That's the purpose of making a movie - to put your life into something - not to get something out of it." - John Cassavetes ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:06:33 -0700 From: Sweet & Tender Hooligan Subject: RE: top 40/top 20 > Beyonce's "Crazy in Love" has gotta be my guilty-pleasure > hit of the year. Still not sick of it. Work it, girl! Ulgh. By the time the Pepsi commercial hit the air, I was already screaming into the wilderness with my fingers in my ears. = s&th hooligan@apostate.com www.jaquelinerose.com "You make movies because you need to make movies. Everything else is unimportant. If you wait to get the money to make a movie, then you shouldn't make the movie. If you need distribution in place before you have the courage to make a movie, then it's not a movie worth making. [...] You make movies to lose your money. That's the purpose of making a movie - to put your life into something - not to get something out of it." - John Cassavetes ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 21:29:11 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: not a reap, but an OD at least Quoting "Jason R. Thornton" : > http://apnews.myway.com//article/20031003/D7TURLFG0.html > > Way to go, Courtney. Didn't see that one coming. I like the caption beneath the photo: "Singer/actress Courtney Love, shown in this Nov. 8, 2000 photo, was arrested for allegedly being..." Wow. Didn't know that her mere *existence* was a crime, much less only her *alleged* existence. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: sex, drugs, revolt, Eskimos, atheism ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 22:18:32 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Hm Well, luckily, "Siegfried" alone is a much more bankable marquee name than "Roy".... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 11:31:21 EDT From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: VCR Alert >I'm not really a Sting fan, but I have a hard time understanding why >some people HATE him so much. It didn't bother me so much that he used his hit single to push Jaguars. What bothered me was that, in said commercial, he was pictured riding in the back seat. What sort of an idiot can't be bothered to drive his own high-speed luxury vehicle? Also, that song "I Hope the Russians Love Their Children, Too" seems to have been written by someone who has never visited the planet Earth. Even Mojo Nixon's "Gonna Put My Face on a Nuclear Bomb" is a much more intelligent commentary on the cold war. Hollie ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:32:15 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: REAP William Steig. Max _________________________________________________________________ Instant message in style with MSN Messenger 6.0. Download it now FREE! http://msnmessenger-download.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 20:51:56 +0100 From: John Subject: Re: [loud-fans] John Bartlett's swap-mix CD All, Just returned from 2 weeks in The Netherlands with the family (those with kids might like to give Efteling a try as well as Disney Paris), and so I apologize for the lateness of my reply. > > > 5. Beagle "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" - Is this a newer > cover, or a vintage one? I ask because it sounds as if it could be > vintage, and during that era quite often songs charted by different > acts on different sides of the Atlantic. Another household > favorite, since it namechecks my wife. A recent cover, a track on the "Right To Chews" Bubblegum tribute CD. In retrospect, perhaps a more reworked track from the LP would have been more interesting, but I think this track is great. There is a version of I Enjoy Being A Boy (In Love With You) by Linus of Hollywood on the CD which fits him to a tee. > > > > 9. The Paranoids "Real by Reel"* - one of a very few tracks on the > "Chalkhills' Children" XTC fan-band tapes that's good enough to > have been releaesd for real (although I don't think it has), > > 10. Simon Knight "Summer Grass"* - another good one from the > "Chalkhills" series, this one wittily layers XTC's "Summer's > Cauldron" and "Grass," featuring male vocals on the one and female > on the other. Works better than you'd think it would. > Just announced for sale on Chalkhills is King For A Day, which collects all the tracks on the 3 XTC trib tapes, plus something like 80 more More details here http://www.geocities.com/king4aday_xtc/TrackListing.html and here http://www.geocities.com/king4aday_xtc/Ordering.html > > > 14. Georges Decimus "Nwel"(?) - I can't quite read what John wrote > for the title - anyway, a sort of horn-filled Afropop excursion - > fun. Its indeed Nwel. Decimus is a lynch pin in the French Caribbean group Kassav, which threatened it swamp France and Francophone Africa with the Zouk sound in the mid 1980s. From an Earthworks comp entitled Hurricane Zouk. > > > > 16. Half Man Half Biscuit "Them's the Vagaries" - John's tried to > sell me on these guys, he says...well, fun, catchy, > energetic...hmm...intrigued, at least. I'm giving up on selling this mob to North Americans. They're a bit UK-specific. The idea of 5 day tests being painful just amuses me. > > 18. The Liquor Giants "Town Bike" - Sort of an Amerindie sound here > - unsurprising, since they are. > Nice use of the Glitter Band sample/loop, though. > > > Anyway, I'm not quite sure how John crammed all these tunes on one > CD...but there they are, and a fun bunch of 'em they are too. > Thanks for that, I'm pleased you liked it. Cheers, John ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #367 ********************************