From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #378 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, October 14 2003 Volume 12 : Number 378 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Luxor reviewed in The Onion (0% Calif Coup d'Etat) ["Brian" ] Re: sloow day... [Christopher Gross ] Sing Along with Rewffi ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: sloow day... [Tom Clark ] Re: Hornby [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Two New Tracks ["FS Thomas" ] Re: Luxor reviewed in The Onion (0% Calif Coup d'Etat) ["Maximilian Lang"] Slow Day List Shite: The Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time ["Ste] Re: Slow Day List Shite: The Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time [Eb ] Re: Two New Tracks [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: sloow day... [HSatterfld@aol.com] Re: sloow day... [steve ] Fwd: Pacific Film Archives (Berkeley) anime showings [steve ] Re: Slow Day List Shite: The Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time [Jeff Dwarf ] reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Slow Day List Shite: The Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: eMusic... [Ken Weingold ] Re: Slow Day List Shite: The Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:22:45 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: Re: Luxor reviewed in The Onion (0% Calif Coup d'Etat) On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:55:32 -0700 (PDT), "Jeff Dwarf" said: > http://www.theonionavclub.com/3939/music.html#review6 "Some were apparently intended for the now-scratched second Soft Boys reunion disc." Grrrrr! - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:28:14 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: Dead Kennedys > From: Ken Weingold > Subject: Dead Kennedys > > Since feg music taste seems to be all over the map, is anyone here into > the Dead Kennedys? I like the DKs, never did see them live, though. Saw a lot of other punk rawk bands, though. It looks like Klaus uses a pick: Well, he always sounds like he uses a pick. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:33:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: sloow day... On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, James Dignan wrote: > Since it seems to be a slow news day on Fegmaniax!, I thought I'd add a > link to some thoughts on Ahnold's election from an elder statesman of > journalism: > > Who's the author? I don't see it anywhere on the page. Is it someone I would have heard of? - --Chris "that's spelled 'Fuhrerprinzip,' with an umlaut on the U" the Christer np: Tori Amos, _Scarlet's Walk_ ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:53:43 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Sing Along with Rewffi Stewart: >>I can't really see Kim as Raffi; more raffish. Heh. He's certainly boyish-looking enough and seems to be full of boundless energy... kids could do worse. Jeff D: >>And at least it's better than the couple of commercials >>featuring kids (for Kraft cheese slices and Energizer >>batteries) featuring "Let's get it On." Or the Kraft Macaroni "kids sing the blues" ads... "When Daddy wants to please me/He only has to cheese me". Incredibly, profoundly disturbing; probably illegal on some level. Should be, anyhow. Ken W: >>Since feg music taste seems to be all over the map, is anyone here into >>the Dead Kennedys? I have all their albums on CD (dunno who's got all the tunes), but no good way to encode and mail mp3's right now. Someone else prolly does. The fidelity on those records is less than spectacular, so I don't know how much clearer those basslines are gonna get. JeFFrey: >>I haven't gone to this page yet (this time), but does it pretend to be >>rating "religious beliefs"? Because since when is "secular humanism" a >>religion (outside the eyes of insane fundamentalists)? A few people have pointed out how goofy it is, based on the transparency of the questions (which would be considered "leading" in the TV version of a courtroom; don't know 'bout the real thing). But I don't think it was meant to quantify religion per se, just "belief systems", whatever the hell that means. My fave was "non-theism". Goddam I tired. Need sleepy-byes. But that no happen soon. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:59:47 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: sloow day... on 10/13/03 3:10 PM, James Dignan at grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > Since it seems to be a slow news day on Fegmaniax!, I thought I'd add a > link to some thoughts on Ahnold's election from an elder statesman of > journalism: > > > Quoting: "The figure that's important to memorise is that in last Tuesday's election only about 50% of the qualified voters voted. So half of the registered Californians aren't interested in politics or don't care enough about domestic matters, no matter how fervently they may worry about foreign policy." Actually the real figure is more like a 60% turnout, which was higher than the last general election in '02. I think the voters really showed the feeling of the state by overwhelmingly defeating the two ballot measures: Proposition 53 was to mandate a certain percentage of the state's budget be devoted to infrastructure; and Proposition 54 wanted to eliminate the collection of all racial data by state agencies. Both were absurd, IYAM. It's gonna be interesting to see how this Ahnold thing plays out. He stated in the campaign that he was pro-choice and pro gun control, but he may just pull a "W" on us and spin around 180 degrees. And don't forget - lurking behind the scenes during the campaign and just now making public appearances on behalf of der-governator is none other than Pete Wilson, whom we ran out of office in favor of Grey Davis in '98. Believe me, those puppet strings need to be made out of steel cables, but they're there. Stepping down, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:01:27 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Hornby >Nick Hornby made an immediate impact in the UK with his first novel, >'Fever Pitch', about a fanatical Arsenal supporter. "Fever pitch" and "Lost in music" are the only two books I've read where I've though "Has this guy been spying on me and written my biography?" >What I *really* don't get is why the guy never says anything about what >Steve Walsh and Kerry Livgren are up to these days. Steve Walsh is still refereeing Rugby internationals, if that's any help. 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: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:08:07 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: Two New Tracks Oi, Fegs. I'm in the process of FTPing two of the tracks from the Criminal Records in-store to my site. They're two of the newbies, and can be found at: http://www.ochrmedia.com/grabitnow/ RH-031010-09.mp3 is (allegedly) "I've Got That Full Moon (In My Soul)" and RH-031010-10.mp3 may very well be called "I Wish I Could Fly". I'll leave them up there for roughly 24 hours. All the best! - -ferris. PS: give it til about 7:45EST before y'all try and grab 'em. PSS: I can provide .shn files for those who want, but am leary of maxing out the site's bandwidth. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:47:06 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Luxor reviewed in The Onion (0% Calif Coup d'Etat) >From: "Brian" >Subject: Re: Luxor reviewed in The Onion (0% Calif Coup d'Etat) >Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:22:45 -0800 >"Some were apparently intended for the now-scratched second Soft Boys >reunion disc." >Grrrrr! I Grrrrr along with you on this one, make that a double Grrrrr! Max _________________________________________________________________ Enjoy MSN 8 patented spam control and more with MSN 8 Dial-up Internet Service. Try it FREE for one month! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:51:37 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Slow Day List Shite: The Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time I'd agree with #1, and am most pleased that Lanark is placed. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:20:56 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Slow Day List Shite: The Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time > > >I'd agree with #1, and am most pleased that Lanark is placed. Someone pointed me at this today, and I thought it was a charmingly utopian idea.... http://www.bookcrossing.com Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:11:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: soccered out I've just finished a half bottle of wine, the Red Sox are on TV and I'm trying so hard not to care about it (I've told myself they will never even go on to the World Series in my lifetime, and I'm trying to live with that) and my daughter's U-12 soccer team just won a tournament championship over this Columbus Day weekend. Six games in 3 days. Pouring rain on one of them. Goddamn. I'm tired. Anyone going to Robyn's show on October 30th? I'm psyched!!! Jill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:22:23 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Two New Tracks Quoting FS Thomas : . http://www.ochrmedia.com/grabitnow/ . . RH-031010-09.mp3 is (allegedly) "I've Got That Full Moon (In My . Soul)" . and RH-031010-10.mp3 may very well be called "I Wish I Could Fly". As most of you have probably figured out, Ferris meant "ochremedia." And even though he's a socio-political nightmare, it's very nice of him to put these tracks up for us. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb :: --Batman np: Wondermints - Mind If We Make Love to You ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:28:50 EDT From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: sloow day... < James>> Perhpas I'm just blind, but I can't seem to find the name of the gentleman (or lady) who wrote this anywhere. Do you know the author's name? Hollie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:32:00 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: sloow day... On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 05:33 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: >> > > Who's the author? I don't see it anywhere on the page. Is it someone > I > would have heard of? Letter From America - that would be Aleister Cookie. Looks like he's got very little time for bullshit in his later years. - - Steve __________ Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to impeach the president. - Bruce Springsteen, on George W. Bush ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:48:35 -0500 From: steve Subject: Fwd: Pacific Film Archives (Berkeley) anime showings For those of you close enough, here's an interesting way to waste a couple of days. I haven't seen the Tezukas, but they look mind-bending enough. Only Yesterday is realistic, The Cat Returns is sweet, and Nausicaa, while only a fraction of the manga, is one of the greats. Begin forwarded message: > PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE THEATER: 2575 BANCROFT WAY @ BOWDITCH, BERKELEY > 510-642-1412/ WWW.BAMPFA.BERKELEY.EDU/ > > Pacific Film Archive presents > Anime: A Celebration > Saturday and Sunday, November 1 & 2, 2003 > > SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1 > 4:00 Space Firebird 2772 > Suguru (Taku) Sugiyama (Japan, 1980) > (Hi no tori-2772, a.k.a. Phoenix 2772). A major link between 1970s > European feature-length animation and contemporary Japanese anime, > Space Firebird 2772 was written and produced by Osamu Tezuka, > considered the most influential manga artist of all time. Complete > with candy-colored visuals, a swooning orchestral score, and enough > carnivalesque characters to resemble a hippie love child of Fantastic > Planet and Yellow Submarine, it outlines the themes-a > machine-dominated totalitarian future, a nearly extinct natural > world, sexy lady robots-that would soon dominate Japanese anime. Kind > to both animals and robots (especially his metallic-thonged > caretaker-robot Olga), the young space pilot Godoh is ordered to > track down a dangerous "space firebird" that could hold the answer to > Earth's salvation-or its doom. Tezuka conjures up cliffhanging > moments, fascist threats, natural disasters, and space battles, > lending Godoh's struggles the epic feel of a classic myth, albeit one > framed by a strange, robo-sexual love story between boy pilot and > robot girl.-Jason Sanders > * Written by Sugiyama, Osamu Tezuka, based on the manga by Tezuka. > (108 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, Color animation, 35mm, > From Toho Co., Ltd.) > > > 7:00 Only Yesterday > Isao Takahata (Japan, 1991) > Nozomu Takahashi in Person > (Omoide poroporo). If Toei pioneered Japan's postwar tradition of > anime feature filmmaking, it was its young animator Isao Takahata who > asserted the concept of the anime feature film-maker with the > struggle to direct his 1968 agitprop fairy tale Prince of the Sun: > The Great Adventure of Horus. Takahata's 1994 Pompoko was the first > anime feature to be submitted for an Oscar. Yet Only Yesterday is > perhaps Takahata's best and purest work, and certainly one of the > greatest anime films of the last four decades, daring to use Studio > Ghibli's jewel-like color and superb command of technique not in the > service of depicting fantasy, science fiction, or even war, but to > show the infinite value of an ordinary life lived in ordinary times. > Flashing between the 1966 youth and 1982 maturity of its protagonist > Taeko, Only Yesterday gives a rich and quiet voice to its Tokyo > office worker, who journeys into the countryside to commune with the > ghost of her childhood.-Carl Horn > * Written by Takahata, based on the manga by Hotaru Okamoto, Yuuko > Tone. (119 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, Color animation, > 35mm, Courtesy Studio Ghibli, permission Disney Enterprises) > > > 9:45 Black Jack > Osamu Dezaki, Fumihiro Yashihara (Japan, 1996) > A fascinating counterpart to BAM's Gene(sis) exhibition, Black Jack > takes place in a future in which humanity is fixated on genetic > engineering and body-enhancing super-drugs, and medical science > experiments with what might be new species. The mysterious Black Jack > lives above the law as a "medical pirate"; the world's finest > surgeon, he saves the dying from death and asks top dollar for his > troubles. He is called upon to help decipher the riddle of a new > "breed" of athletes, Olympians whose perfect bodies go beyond > ordinary human skills and who, in fact, may not be "human" at all. > Written in the 1970s, Black Jack was then famous for its graphic > portrayal of medical science and its realistic depictions of the > human body (in all its extremes); now, like all great science > fiction, it is fascinating for predicting certain elements of "the > future" that have almost come to pass.-Jason Sanders > * Written by Dezaki, Eto Mori, based on a story by Osamu Tezuka. (93 > mins, Dubbed in English, Color animation, 35mm, Courtesy Palm > Pictures/Manga Entertainment) > > SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 > 3:30 The Cat Returns > Hiroyuki Morita (Japan, 2002) Northern California Premiere! > Followed by Panel Discussion! > Following the screening, producer Nozomu Takahashi will join a > representative from Pixar and cultural critic Kaori Shoji in a panel > discussion moderated by Professor Russell Merritt. The panel will > provide insiders' views of creation and marketing, and consider > cross-cultural influences and differences in U.S. and Japanese > reception. > (Neko no ongaeshi). The Cat Returns is the much-anticipated new film > from Studio Ghibli, presented in an exclusive Northern California > screening. The teenaged Haru lives with her single mom, but isn't > having much teenage fun; she's always late, always clumsy, and always > ignored by boys. Preventing a "most unusual cat" from getting run > over opens up a world beyond gym class and buttered toast for Haru, > as a grateful cat king-complete with secret service entourage-comes > to whisk her away to a Cat Kingdom. But not for too long, otherwise > Haru might find herself with a cat-husband, or with very, very long > whiskers. A suitably dashing cat-baron offers Haru some advice: > "Learn to be yourself, and you'll have nothing to fear." Filled with > medieval cat-town squares, castle cat-swordfights, and romantic court > cat-waltzes, The Cat Returns is pure magic, using its fantastical > Errol Flynn-like tale and watercolor-style impressionist animation to > illuminate children's desires to find-and be-themselves.-Jason Sanders > * Written by Reiko Yoshida, based on a manga by Aoi Hiiragi. Project > concept by Hayao Miyazaki. (75 mins, In Japanese with English > subtitles, Color animation, 35mm, Courtesy Studio Ghibli) > > > 7:00 Nausicad of the Valley of the Wind > Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1984) > (Kaze no tani no Nausicad). Hayao Miyazaki might consider his single > greatest work to be not one of his eight films as a director, but > rather the thousand-page manga epic Nausicad that he labored to > complete between 1982 and 1994. In Nausicad, genetically engineered > weapons have burned civilization to the ground, leaving behind the > seeds of a new global ecology that has made humans aliens on their > own planet. A thousand years after the holocaust, Nausicad's > eponymous princess-a girl both soldier and scientist-seeks to > reconcile the last remnants of her still-warring species with the > monstrous biological order overtaking Earth. Although this movie > adaptation represents an early draft of the story-one Miyazaki would > change considerably as the manga evolved-it was and remains a > stirring, sweeping epic of war and adventure, and one of the best > science-fiction films made anywhere during the 1980s.-Carl Horn > * Written by Miyazaki, based on his manga. (116 mins, In Japanese > with English subtitles, Color animation, 35mm, From Disney > Enterprises) > > -- > Laura Deutch > Outreach Coordinator > Pacific Film Archive > 2625 Durant Avenue > Berkeley, CA 94720-2250 > 510/642-6883 > www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa - - Steve __________ It's time to stop all this dancing around and call Bush's [Axis Of Evil] speech what it is: a flight of idiocy. - David Talbot ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:01:49 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: Two New Tracks D'oh! Thankyouthankyouthankyou, Jeffrey! http://www.ochremedia.com/grabitnow would be the right URL. Me typin' hands ain't so accurate! - -f. PS: Go Sox! Go Cubs! A chance at a real win-win World Series. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf > Of Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 9:22 PM > To: something Shakespeare never said > Subject: Re: Two New Tracks > > Quoting FS Thomas : > > . http://www.ochrmedia.com/grabitnow/ > . > . RH-031010-09.mp3 is (allegedly) "I've Got That Full Moon (In My > . Soul)" > . and RH-031010-10.mp3 may very well be called "I Wish I Could Fly". > > As most of you have probably figured out, Ferris meant "ochremedia." > > And even though he's a socio-political nightmare, it's very nice of > him > to put these tracks up for us. > > ..Jeff > > J e f f r e y N o r m a n > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ > :: Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb > :: --Batman > > np: Wondermints - Mind If We Make Love to You ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:17:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Slow Day List Shite: The Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > > I'd agree with #1, and am most pleased that Lanark is > placed. Oddly, the highest on the list I've read is #10 (Frankenstein). Huck Finn, Brave New World, and Gatsby are all too low. And I'm terribly sure I can trust any list that, at the summary at the bottom, worries they may have missed Bret Easton Ellis of all people. And Moby Dick sucks. ===== "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!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:04:23 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Slow Day List Shite: The Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time Quoting Jeff Dwarf : . Seems rather Brit-centric, though...not that I'm Mr. Worldly Novel-Reader. Ones I've read (or at least turned over the pages in correct sequence at one time): Cervantes, Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Shelley, (I can't believe: neither of the Brontes!), Hawthorne, Melville, Carroll (not really a novel, is it...), parts of Dostoevsky, James, Twain, Stevenson (I think...), Wilde, undoubtedly London though I don't remember it and think it's probably cheesy, Ford, Joyce, Forster, Fitzgerald, Kafka, Faulkner, Huxley, Waugh, Chandler, Camus, Orwell, Salinger (again, so long ago I probably shouldn't count it), White (I think), Tolkien, Golding, Nabokov, Achebe, Lee, Heller, Bellow, Garcia Marquez, Morrison, Calvino, Naipaul, Levi, I don't suppose the movie counts for Ellroy, McEwan, Pullman (yes!)...apparently I'm better read than I thought I was. To be fair, though, a good chunk of these were read in classes - and quite a number of them have drifted almost completely from my memory. The ones I'd count, as having read more than once or at least with more recency and enthusiasm, would be Swift, Shelley, Hawthorne, Melville, Carroll, maybe Wilde, Joyce, Kafka, Chandler, Nobokov, Morrison, and Pullman. . And Moby Dick sucks. Does not! You have to read the unabridged version - the abridgments sap it of its power. This seems like a very Quail-drawing-out list - too bad he's gone for this one, at least. ..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 np: Aphex Twin _Drukqs_ disc 2 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:09:11 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Dead Kennedys On Mon, Oct 13, 2003, Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > It looks like Klaus uses a pick: > > > dkennedys02.jpg> I guess he's using the pick there. > Hey, where did Husker Du come from? - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:23:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: reap Former San Diego Padres owner/McDonald's widow Joan Kroc ===== "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!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:37:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Slow Day List Shite: The Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > . And Moby Dick sucks. > > Does not! You have to read the unabridged version - the > abridgments sap it of its power. It was an unabridged version. It sucks. ===== "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!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:40:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Rush (the one that actually wish it was the friggin' band) http://tinyurl.com/qqoz ===== "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!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:44:59 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: eMusic... Who was it that had the conspiracy theory that eMusic was *trying* to kill itself, as a sort of loss leader for the new buyer? Anyone who's tried to download anything for the last few days might notice it's like trying to suck elephants through a straw (not that I'd *actually* know anything about that) to get anything to download...yet that their announcement would create a bank run should have been *eminently* predictable. Fact is, while the announcement of the changes might have annoyed some people, the impossibility of downloading now is probably annoying anyone who *wasn't* pissed off the first time. They should have just said, "effective immediately." Yeah, people would be pissed - and they could hand out free month-long passes to folks who complained or something - but at least it'd be over and done, instead of this period of waiting for everyone's limits to kick in and the servers to free up space. Grrr... ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb :: --Batman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:59:19 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: eMusic... On Mon, Oct 13, 2003, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Who was it that had the conspiracy theory that eMusic was *trying* to > kill itself, as a sort of loss leader for the new buyer? That was I. > Anyone who's tried to download anything for the last few days might > notice it's like trying to suck elephants through a straw (not that > I'd *actually* know anything about that) to get anything to > download...yet that their announcement would create a bank run > should have been *eminently* predictable. Fact is, while the > announcement of the changes might have annoyed some people, the > impossibility of downloading now is probably annoying anyone who > *wasn't* pissed off the first time. You're right. It's pathetic. Plus tonight I got a new one. It's annoying since the download manager will delete the .emp file once it starts downloading. So if there's a problem and you need to redownload it, you need to go get the .emp file again. And tonight it pulled a new one. Usually it will fail on quite a few tracks, and I just keep on hitting the Resume Selected to get the rest. Tonight after a while I did that, and immediately it says Completed, one afte the other. I had 0k files with those names. Pathetic. I can't believe now more than ever they would think people would stay. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:23:10 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Slow Day List Shite: The Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time - --On Montag, 13. Oktober 2003 19:51 Uhr -0400 "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > > > I'd agree with #1, and am most pleased that Lanark is placed. #1 is definitely great, but #1? I've read only 30 out of 100, so I have some more reading to do. Anyway, my current #1 off that list would probably be either "100 years of solitude" or "Brothers Karamazov". - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #378 ********************************