From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #387 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, October 21 2003 Volume 12 : Number 387 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Ass Sandwich Served Here [Tom Clark ] an antidote to b**eball [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: oh well ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: even more boring than baseball... ["Matt Sewell" ] Novel AND un-scientific [FSThomas ] Re: No baseball, no tek; some Robyn, Pynchon, Shatner [Jeffrey with 2 Fs ] RE: Elf Power cover Robyn ["Bruce Haemmerle" ] RE: Elf Power cover Robyn [bayard ] Happy Talk RH? Wrong ["Brian" ] The typo of Arthur Lee ["Maximilian Lang" ] Autumn Sea/Reveal ["Charlotte Tupman" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:23:57 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Ass Sandwich Served Here on 10/18/03 3:16 PM, The Mammal Brain at tews@drizzle.com wrote: > i've been seriously considering trying to surreptitiously make a tape of > one of my co-worker's reactions while listening to mariners' games, and > then trying to get him a job as the mariners' colour announcer. the FCC > fines would make howard stern look like a potzer, but the ratings would be > *through the roof*. I remember seeing once a story about a web site where you could go to hear regular guys doing live play-by-play of NFL games. Crank up the computer and turn the sound down on the TV and, well, I guess fun ensues. I can't seem to find any reference to it through Google, so perhaps the site is dead now. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:01:01 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: an antidote to b**eball Robbed! 32-32 with only seconds to go, and that damned Iliesa Tanivula slipped through for a try. Otago miss out on the NPC grand final *again*... Auckland vs Wellington at the Caketin next weekend. Sigh. 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, 20 Oct 2003 10:44:01 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: oh well Funny if by funny you mean most tedious thread ever! ;0) Cheers Matt, with absolutely no time for glorified rounders (as far as I'm concerned a game for children on picnics..!) >From: DougMash@aol.com > >Funny seeing baseball talk on the Feg line! My memory of Game 7 last year >was watching it in a bar on Houston St. across from the Mercury Lounge, and >constantly looking at my watch wondering if the Soft Boys were going on yet in the >Mercury Lounge! Caught the whole show, missed the Angels celebration. Sure >glad my Yankees are in there this year, but wish there was a Soft Boys gig next >Sunday to go to!!! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your hands on designer bargains for less - click here. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:50:16 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: even more boring than baseball... I take it back - glorified rounders is far more interesting than this techy bollocks... grr.. Cheers Matt >From: Miles Goosens >Reply-To: Miles Goosens >To: Abandon All Mellotrons Ye Who Enter Here >Subject: Re: even more boring than baseball... >Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 15:32:08 -0500 (GMT-05:00) > >I've had an Asante FriendlyNet 3004FLC router for the last two-plus years, and it's worked flawlessly. That's a wired model, though, so you'll probably be interested in this instead: > >http://www.asante.com/products/routers/FR1004AL/index.html > >I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but you'll be needing a network card on that other PC, if you don't have one there already. And other than hooking everything up and entering your ISP information into the router's internal configuration, that's pretty much it. > >later, > >Miles > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey >Sent: Oct 18, 2003 12:03 PM >To: Abandon All Mellotrons Ye Who Enter Here >Subject: even more boring than baseball... > >..to me, at least, are the tech threads. > >However, here I am, potentially starting one, in my guise as Mr. >Stupid: We have two computers in the same room, both running >(please >have crosses and garlic at the ready, Mac fans) Win98. One of them >(the one I'm typing at, in fact) is connected to the 'net via a >cable modem. > >What we want to do is the cheapest way of getting both machines >online, without throwing any more money at our cable provider. >Wireless is good, if possible, since our cats love to chew wire >(and >are thus barred from this room). Brand names welcome, if you have >such specific recommendations. (Suggestions that I throw both >computers out the window and buy new boxes that run Linux, OS X, or >Obscurotronix GeekSys 3.7.5 will be ignored.) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect your PC from e-mail viruses. Get MSN 8 today. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:37:10 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: even more boring than baseball... Thanks much to all who responded to my query that raised the dreaded TekThred! from the dead. It can go back now, thank you. ..Jeff, looking through various online catalogs for prices etc. 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, 20 Oct 2003 09:31:24 -0500 From: "Iosso, Ken" Subject: RE: Fidrych, from our family to yours Have you checked if that card is worth money? Ken Iosso - -----Original Message----- From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis@indyworld.com] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 5:27 PM To: Miles Goosens; fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Fidrych, from our family to yours > ...and I misspelled Mark Fidrych's surname a couple of posts ago. You non-baseball fans may remember him as the curly-haired Tigers rookie (and I guess it speaks to the non-sports-fan nature of Loud-Fans that no one there has ever mentioned him as a potential Sc*tt M*ll*r double) who talked to the baseball, creating some Robyn-worthy moments of surreal baseball joy in that storied Bicentennial year. > For some reason, Fidrych's is the one single baseball card I've kept from my two or three years of youthful collecting. I guess I'm attached to the freakish players, 'cause I very much regret not keeping Dock Ellis as well. JPL ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:48:52 -0700 From: Sweet & Tender Hooligan Subject: RE: Books you read over and over > > and, of course, the entire Ted Geisel oeuvre. > > Even "Inside the Jap Mind" and "The German Threat" or whatever those > hideous things were called? Er...never heard of those particular titles. I'm guessing they're not stocked in the children's section at B&N? > Man, that guy can do no right by me after seeing his propaganda > flicks. He made movies? = s&th hooligan@apostate.com www.jaquelinerose.com "When you're young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be great. You might be Einstein. You might be Goethe. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment." - Charlie Kaufman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:23:36 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: No baseball, no tek; some Robyn, Pynchon, Shatner Miles: >>We had "Summer Band" in July and August for those wiling to put in the >>extra work. I wouldn't have thought of it as "camp," though. It got me out of >>the house, and I also got to see which thing the majorettes made fun of me >>listening to the year before had become a hit over the summer and was >>now embraced by these same majorettes. Musta been a West Virginia thing. Was your dad's drummer the band instructor, too? The high school has since moved way closer to my folks' house than it was in my day and you can now hear the "Summer Band" all day long from the pool deck. Which would've meant lunch at home instead of Fox's Pizza Den. Eb: >>I wish my clarinet was still usable. It isn't. Air leaks. You should see my trumpet. Wait, that didn't come out right. Nat: >>As for wanting to fuck Lucinda Williams, I'm glad that Kathleen Edwards >>has not led you astray from your single-minded desire. Well, like I said, Kathleen looks a lot like my wife, so it's kind of an "I already got one of those" kind of things. And I did warn you not to read the Sleater-Kinney part! Johnathan V. >>I stick with Lot 49 because it still sticks with me. V is less >>memorable than Vineland. Mason & Dixon is completely wonderful but >>it is cut from different cloth than other Pynchon books. Again, V is my favorite... dunno why it sticks with me so much more than it does for other Pynchonites. Vineland is great but seems slightly more like something someone else could've written than most of the others. Not really, but it's a relative thing, like how certain Tom Verlaine licks sound country to me, but would sound totally bizarre on someone else's actual country record. Marc & Ferris: > It sounds like he might be spending more time in this > area, so I'm hoping for more evenings like this. >>When I saw him here in Atlanta he mentioned cacti and that he would be >>living in Arizona for a while. No idea why, though. Weird. One of the things I associate least with Robyn is the desert, if that makes sense. But it could be interesting. Kristin Hersh living in Joshua Tree for a while seemed like a natural, but her music from that period is among her least engaging... too natural a fit? Jeffrey: >>You may spare the rest of the list the horror of Tek Thred! (which >>might be a Fall title) if you wish by e-mailing me personally. I was thinking "Shatner novel". Which raises an intriguing possibilty for Captain Kirk's resumed recording career: "Shatner Sings the Mark E. Smith Songbook". I'd order a crate and give 'em out for Christmas, I would. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:51:33 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: High Desert Robyn Me: >>Kristin Hersh living in Joshua Tree for a while seemed like a natural, but her >>music from that period is among her least engaging... too natural a fit? Then again, it was probably around that time that Kristin first started hanging out with Howe Gelb, who I think would be an excellent collaborator for Robyn. That could be his solo album that's actually gold with green writing on it... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:43:23 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Novel AND un-scientific Results of the 2nd annual Weasel Poll off of Dilbert.com. Of the 35,874 votes, these are some of the results: Tally Weaseliest Organization - ------ ---------------------------------------- 7950 Recording Industry Association of America 6322 White House 4470 Democratic Party 3989 ACLU 3859 Organized religion 3039 Fox News Corporation 3008 Republican Party 1860 Congress 1323 New York Times Tally Weaseliest Country - ------ ------------------ 12739 France 10761 USA 5845 Saudi Arabia 4668 North Korea 801 Iran 509 Canada 219 Germany Tally Weaseliest Company - ------ ------------------ 12854 Microsoft 7645 Halliburton 7220 MCI WorldCom 2425 Kmart 1313 Merrill Lynch 1173 HealthSouth 1017 Freddie Mac 970 Salomon Smith Barney Tally Weaseliest Profession - ------ --------------------- 10309 Politicians 7854 Lawyers 6234 News media 6059 Tobacco executives 4217 Oil executives 1043 Accountants Tally Weaseliest Individual - ------ --------------------- 13959 George W. Bush 5104 Michael Moore 3057 Yasser Arafat 2820 Jacques Chirac 2141 Saddam Hussein 1883 Tom Daschle 1105 Arnold Schwarzenegger 1095 Al Franken 1023 Ariel Sharon 932 Bill O'Reilly 695 Ann Coulter 483 Charles Schumer 400 Sean Penn 383 Jayson Blair 230 Richard Grasso 195 Gerhardt Schroeder 188 Bill Bennett 146 Jack Grubman Tally Weaseliest Behavior - ------ ------------------- 18877 Blaming fast food restaurants for making you fat 5748 Religious extremism 4688 Creating computer worms/viruses because no one will date you 3997 Driving a Hummer 1487 Using cell phones in restaurants 1077 Using speaker phone in cubicle - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:25:43 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: No baseball, no tek; some Robyn, Pynchon, Shatner Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > Captain Kirk's resumed recording career: "Shatner Sings the Mark > E. Smith Songbook". I can actually hear this one... "I...took to doing...some...HOVERING!" - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: PLEASE! You are sending cheese information to me. :: I don't want it. :: I have no goats or cows or any other milk producing animal! :: --"raus" np: Robert Wyatt _Shleep_ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:56:28 -0700 From: "Bruce Haemmerle" Subject: RE: Elf Power cover Robyn New? I picked it up in the spring. It was taken from an ep the released years ago. There is also Sonic Youth and romones covers on the ep. I agree its not a shining moment for them. They do a good cover of Eno " Needle In The Camels Eye " on their second album. b - -----Original Message----- From: Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc) [mailto:v-jasobr@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 12:46 PM To: fegmaniax-announce@smoe.org Subject: Elf Power cover Robyn Elf Power cover "Listening to the Higsons" on the their new covers album Nothing's Going to Happen. =20 Pretty good cover but they don't really do anything new with the song. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:51:21 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: RE: Elf Power cover Robyn the neat thing about the original EP ("Come On") was every copy had a "personalized" cover. One of them looks to be a hat much like the hat on the "Man who invented himself" record. I scanned a couple copies and you can find them on this silly page: http://www.glasshotel.net/gh/ephemera/ I'd refer you to the JH3 Silly Page, but I'm told it's gone. FOREVER. More ephemera: http://www.bitmine.net/~bayard/robyn/ =b On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Bruce Haemmerle wrote: > New? I picked it up in the spring. It was taken from an ep the released > years ago. There is also Sonic Youth and romones covers > on the ep. I agree its not a shining moment for them. They do a good > cover of Eno " Needle In The Camels Eye " on their second album. > > b > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc) [mailto:v-jasobr@microsoft.com] > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 12:46 PM > To: fegmaniax-announce@smoe.org > Subject: Elf Power cover Robyn > > > Elf Power cover "Listening to the Higsons" on the their new covers album > Nothing's Going to Happen. > > =20 > > Pretty good cover but they don't really do anything new with the song. > - -- I plead alignment to the flakes, of the untitled snakes of a merry cow, and to the republicans, for which they scam, one nacho, underpants, with licorice and jugs of wine for owls. - Matt Groening ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:52:28 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: Happy Talk RH? Wrong - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:40:37 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: The typo of Arthur Lee Robyn gets a thank you in the liner of the new Forever Changes DVD. Problem is it's spelled 'Robin'. I saw Love last night, what a great show but his fans are a bunch of spazoids. Yes I am a fan, so I should talk, right? Max _________________________________________________________________ Concerned that messages may bounce because your Hotmail account has exceeded its 2MB storage limit? Get Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:15:12 +0100 From: "Charlotte Tupman" Subject: Autumn Sea/Reveal Would anyone be able to tell me what instrument or effect is being used right at the end of 'Autumn Sea'? It's the very last chord, just after Robyn says "Ah, October". The same sound appears on REM's latest album but I have no idea what it is... Thanks, Charlotte _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #387 ********************************