From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #451 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, December 5 2003 Volume 12 : Number 451 Today's Subjects: ----------------- burn your dvds ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Putin the Putrid, Conquerer of the Proletariat [Michael R Godwin ] Fossilised Crustacean Boasts Oldest Penis ["ross taylor" ] surrealism, revision & Robyn (was "Let's Hear") ["ross taylor" ] re: blew a couple of chords, and they just fainted dead away [Eb ] Bravely oh sir Robyn set forth for Hoboken ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Bush II, Conqueror of the Desert [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Bravely oh sir Robyn set forth for Hoboken ["Jon Lewis" ] Re: The Fall and Rise of RP ["Jon Lewis" ] Late Timing ["Jon Lewis" ] Tomorrows shows? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Tomorrows shows? [Steve Talkowski ] Re: Tomorrows shows? [Tom Clark ] Re: Tomorrows shows? ["Maximilian Lang" ] dawg songs/album grading/reaps [anthony stokes ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:22:29 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: burn your dvds Hey there-- This always seems to be the place to get some answers, so here goes. I got a dvd burner last night and out that the blanks they sell hold less content than a standard commercial dvd movie disc (4.7GB vs. 5.6+ GB). What is generally the easiest way around this? Are larger capacity blank discs available? I really hadn't expected this particular problem, and I'm a bit thrown off by it. Time for coffee, Marc Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:28:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Putin the Putrid, Conquerer of the Proletariat On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 gshell@metronet.com wrote: > Why isn't the same type expression used when describing casualties > in Chechnya? What's the total so far, this year? Whatever it was, it's just risen: ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:36:36 -0600 From: Devin Lee Ens Subject: re; "I walked into the house..." "Natalie Jacobs" wrote: >>When I write songs, I'm usually aware of every possible interpretation >>before I >>let anyone hear it. >to assume that every single level of meaning is intentional >is giving too much credit to most artists. Sure, if anyone tried to tell me that the drunken babble Jim Morrison spewed all over the Doors' otherwise groovy sound had any meaning or value, I'd laugh my ass off. But Robyn Hitchcock is quite another story, and I think you're underestimating him. Most of the Egyptian's material was pretty simple, but the man has been evolving steadily in skill, if the output might be a bit staggered. And if the Yip Song is about "Robyn's dad's cancer hallucinations" (I forget who said that), then he's getting even deeper than I thought. >And I really, really, really hate to even mention this, but the proofreader >in me is too strong - it's "masturbation," not "mastrubation." Thanks. How humiliating! That's what I get for smoking before breakfast... i am not devo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:09:39 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: Fossilised Crustacean Boasts Oldest Penis I hope I'm at least among the first 5 to post this -- http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994452 Coming up soon: To What Extent Does Robyn Revise? Ross Taylor Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:22:13 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: What to get the feg who has everything? James: >>Of course, that means I've had people come up to me with their own pet >>theories of my songs (no, "In the morning light" is NOT about abortion, >>thank you very much - and "Bear town" is NOT about murdering a close >>relation. And no, none of my songs are about masturbation, either). Matt: >>Unlike this wanking-obsessed Robyn bloke everyone keeps going on about, >>I have yet to write a song about masturbation My back catalog is similarly wank-free. But I should point out that "Dead Tongue" is not about male pattern baldness, and nobody in "Satellite Business" gets naked... the get "t' achin'" in venerable country parlance. I'd like to think a few of them might rate with James' and Matt's tunes, but I'm a little late in getting that comp together that might shed some light on the topic. About which more later. So I got to see David Byrne doing a Power Point presentation last night. Which is not as cool as the fact that my wife helped him set up said Power Point presentation. But I did meet him briefly. And he wrote my name next to his, in the Book of Not So Much Love as of Pictures of His Power Point Presentation. Weird evening, but I did get a totally cool Christmas gift for my friend Simon. What I'm gettin' for everyone else... I dunno. Any cool gift recommendations? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:49:45 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: What to get the feg who has everything? On Dec 5, 2003, at 1:22 PM, Rex.Broome wrote: > So I got to see David Byrne doing a Power Point presentation last > night. Which is not as cool as the fact that my wife helped him set > up said Power Point presentation. But I did meet him briefly. That is very cool! In fact, one might say it was a once in a lifetime sorta thing... ;) c. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:55:16 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: What to get the feg who has everything? Rex wrote: > > Any cool gift recommendations? Airzookas! Airzookas for everyone! Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:36:52 -0700 From: "Cadtharsis" Subject: Good Slang Dictionary Someone wrote re: English slang: > > not until the last few years, and even now I'd guess it's rare. why use a > long winded term like that when you can just say "wank"? Um...because their English? Where in Britain do they use "Disobey the Pope"? http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/slang.htm - - Bill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 15:21:51 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: surrealism, revision & Robyn (was "Let's Hear") "Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that 'Cant Buy Me Love' is about a prostitute, I draw the line. Thats going too far.  Paul McCartney Devin >When I write songs, I'm usually aware of every possible interpretation before I let anyone hear it. I don't think that's possible. How about the ones involving Heidi Klum? ... Or .... THE SPANISH INQUISITION!?!? (No one expects that. ) A lot of this degree of interpretation has to do w/ at least elements of surrealism, which itself is a big factor in a lot, but far from all, 20th century poetry. This is pushing me to go back to the root philosophies of surrealism & related styles, which I am woefully muddy about, having forgotten a lot of those writings & skipped over a bunch more, prefering to skip the rationalisations & go straight to the main course. I seem to remember some (Arp? Max Ernst? Rimbaud? already I'm getting loose in how I define the group) were pretty mystical about it, feeling there was some higher reality we had to defy our senses & our reason in order to get in touch with. And weren't there a bunch (Dali? definitely lots of American poets) who tended to tie it in to current theories of psychology, i.e. Freud & Jung. This is way too big a topic to easily bring right back to Robyn, but I wonder what his ideas about surrealism are? It seems like general questions about his "strange" songs often just get answered w/ more strangeness or w/ some "that's just how I think" comment, but there was at least one interview where he said something like "We don't really know how the brain works. All thought is free association to some extent." Which is pretty good, IMO. Wasn't that pretty much the thinking behind Joyce's Ulysses, that the "surreal" free-association was just another kind (mental) of realism? Anyway, I'm very interested in how revision plays into "surrealism," particularly kinds that at least start w/ heavy free association, like Robyn's. Obviously he can make up a ton of weird shit right on the spot -- but some of it is based on other weird shit he made up on previous spots, right? Max's cd of all the Underwater Moonlight monologues in 2001 seems to show that pretty well (& is a lot of fun to boot). Also Robyn's verses often scan pretty evenly. He's probably gotten so he can think easily in common meters (poet Donald Hall could talk in blank verse for an hour or more at a time as a party trick), but still, your free associations that way aren't what you'd have thought of next, they're what you'd have thought of next that fits into the meter. And what if you, unlike Xene Cervinka, think bad thoughts? Somewhere, on one of the main RH sites there's a document transcribing "The Evolution of the Yip Song." (From Tews?). It's cool in itself whatever you think of that song (I can't find it right now), but it has a part where RH is free-associating along & describing, I think, some comical small animal (NOT a hopping mouse) getting chased by a Chinese cook. It seems to be going into a tired stereotype of a comical dufusy Chinese cook, but Robyn interjects something like "but that's just how it always, is since none of us can get a decent job." It's just the 1st example to come to mind, & I wish I could find the quote, but it seems like an instance of a nasty old fashioned thought bubbling up into a free-association that doesn't want to be nasty & old fashioned. I don't want to get side-tracked onto political correctness, I think some people, maybe even RH in a different mood, could have kept that funny while making it clear they didn't really advocate predjudice, but it sounds like (*where* is that quote?) RH hits a thought he doesn't like & temporarily grabs hold of the driver's wheel again. The important point being this must happen a lot for people who live by free association -- right? Now i'v run out of time I have to work. Ross Taylor Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:44:16 -0800 From: "Natalie Jacobs" Subject: hotmale >I've been using it for about eight months now and it RULES. You can keep >your Hotmail account and have mailblocks check it for you AND filter out >the >spam (seriously - it does). $10 per year for a 15Meg. IMAP account. Sign >up now and get an extra two years free. > >Natalie - because I love you so much I'll give you back the $10 if you >don't >like it. I love you too, Tom, and I appreciate the offer, but spam isn't that much of a problem for me... it's that Hotmail is so awkward and unwieldy to use. I actually think the whole thing is set up so that you have to go through as many pages as possible to get to your e-mail, so that you will see an extra amount of ads en route. You can still give me $10, if you like. n. np: a record that Rex owns current favorite song about wanking: The Decemberists, "Billy Liar" _________________________________________________________________ Our best dial-up offer is back. Get MSN Dial-up Internet Service for 6 months @ $9.95/month now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:45:55 -0800 From: Eb Subject: re: blew a couple of chords, and they just fainted dead away >Incidentally, did East End band Squeeze take their name from Hemmings >film "The Squeeze"? No, they took it from the Velvet Underground's album Squeeze, the forgotten one made after Lou Reed left. >So I got to see David Byrne doing a Power Point presentation last night. Explain further. Hilarity: Type "miserable failure" into Google, then hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:58:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: Fossilised Crustacean Boasts Oldest Penis I heard this on NPR, and got a good laugh out of the translation of its taxonomic name: 'Colymbosathon ecplecticos - derived from the Greek for "astounding swimmer with a large penis".' On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:09:39 -0500, "ross taylor" wrote : > I hope I'm at least among the first 5 to post this -- > > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994452 > > > Coming up soon: To What Extent Does Robyn Revise? > > Ross Taylor > > > > > Need a new email address that people can remember > Check out the new EudoraMail at > http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:22:59 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: burn your dvds on 12/5/03 8:22 AM, Marc Holden at marc.h@earthlink.net wrote: > Hey there-- > This always seems to be the place to get some answers, so here goes. I > got a dvd burner last night and out that the blanks they sell hold less > content than a standard commercial dvd movie disc (4.7GB vs. 5.6+ GB). What > is generally the easiest way around this? Are larger capacity blank discs > available? I really hadn't expected this particular problem, and I'm a bit > thrown off by it. You'll find that most movies will fit on a 4.7G disc - it's all the extras that bloat commercial DVD's. I use a program for the Mac called DVD2One that allows you to strip away all the extra stuff, including alternate languages and commentaries. Even if the movie itself is still too long, the program will try to recompress it to fit on a 4.7G blank. For the record, here's what I use to exercise my Fair Use rights with commercial DVD's: DVDBackup 1.3 for "ripping" http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18599 DVD2OneX 1.2 for re-authoring (when necessary) http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19238 Roxio Toast Titanium for burning http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/ - -tc p.s. Please do not pirate commercial DVD's. You wouldn't want Jack Valenti to throw a seven because you booted a rented copy of "Turner & Hooch" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:15:30 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Bravely oh sir Robyn set forth for Hoboken For those fearing a cancelation of the Hoboken shows, they are happening. I e-mailed the owner and he replied promptly saying that Robyn is already in town and the show are going on. _________________________________________________________________ Take advantage of our best MSN Dial-up offer of the year  six months @$9.95/month. Sign up now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:18:42 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: bonus-track controversy Eb wrote: > I don't think bonus tracks should "count." On the > other hand, I feel really torn when rating the Who's > Live at Leeds, because I like the new version (with > bonus tracks inserted throughout) The single or the double? Is having all of Tommy worth the upgrade? *so* much better > than the original. And since they're from the same > performance, anyway.... That's exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of. Face it: sometimes artists have their heads up their arses when picking what songs to put on the album the first time around, especially when the artist is choosing from a lesser bunch of material than usual or live albums before CDs became standard. Especially in a case like Live at Leeds (or Stop Making Sense!!!). For studio albums, I don't think it should ever be counted against the album, but when the bonus tracks are particularly good, I probably do rate the album a bit higher than I would otherwise. ===== "Senator John McCain recently compared the situation in Iraq to the Vietnam era -- to which President Bush replied, 'What does Iraq have in common with drinking beer in Texas?'" -- Craig Kilborn "I don't think the Bush administration lied to us about Iraq. I think it's worse than that. I think they fooled themselves. I think they were conned by Ahmad Chalabi. I think they indulged in wishful thinking to a point of near criminality. I think they decided anyone who didn't agree with them was an enemy, anti-American, disloyal. In other words, I think they're criminally stupid." -- Molly Ivins __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:20:43 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Bush II, Conqueror of the Desert Michael R Godwin wrote: > The thing that cheeses me off is these announcers > who say things like "This was the 100th casualty > since the end of hostilities". What > definition of 'hostilities' are they using? Silly boy, don't you remember Dubya declared the real fighting over -- he had a banner made and everything. These people are actually all eating ice cream cones. No one is dead. Except the trrrsts. And the evildoers. And the trrrrrsts. ===== "Senator John McCain recently compared the situation in Iraq to the Vietnam era -- to which President Bush replied, 'What does Iraq have in common with drinking beer in Texas?'" -- Craig Kilborn "I don't think the Bush administration lied to us about Iraq. I think it's worse than that. I think they fooled themselves. I think they were conned by Ahmad Chalabi. I think they indulged in wishful thinking to a point of near criminality. I think they decided anyone who didn't agree with them was an enemy, anti-American, disloyal. In other words, I think they're criminally stupid." -- Molly Ivins __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:41:20 -0500 From: "Jon Lewis" Subject: Re: Bravely oh sir Robyn set forth for Hoboken > For those fearing a cancelation of the Hoboken shows, they are happening. > I e-mailed the owner and he replied promptly saying that Robyn is already in > town and the show are going on. > Hooray! I was just worrying about that not five minutes ago. I wonder if he'll play Winter Love? I almost requested it last week. Perhaps College of Ice... On a related note, none of my friends had the perspicacity to see what an important show this is, so I'll be venturing west all alone. If anybody wants to ride the PATH train from Manhattan together, email me. Winterreiser, Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:23:55 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Jackson grades wanking casualties in Kansas - film at eleven. My mind just did the same "ah! He's back!" as Reggie Perrin did at the reappearance of the hippo. > Well, Alexei happens to be the childhood name of Carnivale's Brother >Justin, who was born in Russia. > > The struggle between Ben and Lodz was an encounter by proxy between Ben >and Brother Justin. > > "Carnivale" is an allegory about the life and career of Empress Heidi. >Ben (NICK Stahl) and Brother Justin (Clancy BROWN) represent me, Nick Kaffes. >"Kaffes" means "coffee" in Greek, and also "brown", the color of coffee. >Therefore, my name means NICK BROWN. Lodz - the name of a city in Poland, which, over most of the last century was in the hands of Justin's homeland of Russia an Heidi's homeland of Germany! And, IIRC, the city's name is usually pronounced "Woodzh" - what colour are woods? Brown! This is all beginning to make sense! > More coffee? just keep taking the tablets. - --- >Amazon.com shopper's suggestions for the perfect compliment to MJ's "Number >Ones" > >http://tinyurl.com/xryi Ouch! Best review I've seen of this album said simply: "Number twos" - --- >> it all depends on the way exams are graded. After all, in many (most?) >> English speaking countries, D is a fail, E is a bad fail. C- is "we'll say >> you passed, but you can't do the next course up". > >What's the point of giving grades below failing? it gives information to the student as to whether it's worth re-sitting, it gives information to the teaching institution as to whether they should be allowed to sit again. Ds are usually allowed to re-sit, Es aren't. - --- >Incidentally, did East End band Squeeze take their name from Hemmings >film "The Squeeze"? I thought their name referred to wanking... - --- >On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:06 , Michael R Godwin sent: >>The thing that cheeses me off is these announcers who say things like >>"This was the 100th casualty since the end of hostilities". What >>definition of 'hostilities' are they using? > >Why isn't the same type expression used when describing casualties >in Chechnya? What's the total so far, this year? Funny how few >are actually reported by Russia or the rest of world's press. Why >don't we use the misery and suffering there as a comparison? 36 last night. But it's not affecting westerners, so the news agencies won't be interested. How many casualties (by which, I presume they mean deaths) since the end of hostilities in the Congo DR, for that matter. Or since the end of hostilities in Sri Lanka? Or Eritrea/Ethiopia? Or Sierra Leone? Who cares - it's not westerners, so the news can safely ignore it. You might as well point out that when a ferry crashed in New York a month or so back with, what - four or five deaths?, it makes the headlines worldwide. When a ferry sinks in Bangladesh or Nigeria with 250 lives lost, it rates a column inch on page 37, a week after the event. 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: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:07:22 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: bonus-track controversy >Jeff: > > I don't think bonus tracks should "count." On the > > other hand, I feel really torn when rating the Who's >> Live at Leeds, because I like the new version (with >> bonus tracks inserted throughout) > >The single or the double? Is having all of Tommy worth >the upgrade? Oh, I was talking about the version from a few years ago, which balances the jammy tunes with new, punchier stuff like "I Can't Explain," "Fortune Teller," "Tattoo," "Happy Jack" and "I'm a Boy." Plus, "Heaven and Hell," "A Quick One" and "Amazing Journey/Sparks," which all kick ass. I don't want the two-disc version, however. That's overkill. I really don't like this new trend of releasing two-disc reissues of one-disc albums (though I sure do have the My Generation reissue on my wish list). >Especially in >a case like Live at Leeds (or Stop Making Sense!!!). Yeah, that's another live album which got a significant boost from an expanded reissue. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 21:08:04 -0500 From: "Jon Lewis" Subject: Re: The Fall and Rise of RP > My mind just did the same "ah! He's back!" as Reggie Perrin did at the > reappearance of the hippo. Thank you for mentioning Reginald Perrin! I live in a world where no one remembers that show. Whenever I get in a conversation that involves reminiscing about favorite old "britcoms", I always mention it, no one's ever heard of it, and I'm utterly unable to get across its greatness by mere description. Also, it seems like all of the other shows I remember from those days are still being rerun on PBS semi-regularly, but I haven't seen a broadcast of Perrin since, oh, 1985. It and Butterflies would both make swell DVD sets, I think, being comedies with overarching serial storylines... Jon Lewis (who also watched EastEnders religiously from ages 15-17) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 21:18:04 -0500 From: "Jon Lewis" Subject: Late Timing I forgot to chime in a few days ago when-- I think it was Natalie?-- mentioned getting Bad Timing by Jim O'Rourke and turning it off in exasperation halfway through. You really do have to listen to the rest! Believe it or not, it eventially explodes into a great, jaunty hoe-down section with a happy brass band and everything. You don't want to miss that. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:40:53 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Tomorrows shows? Hey, Is there anyone going to tomorrow's shows who is taping them and taking pubic transportation. They are now talking about a snow emergency(roads closed) in NJ so I am not sure I can make it. $70.00 down the drain if that happens. Hopefully I can get a recording that I can listen to when I stop crying. They are taling about 10"-16" of snow in NYC before it's all done. Max _________________________________________________________________ Browse styles for all ages, from the latest looks to cozy weekend wear at MSN Shopping. And check out the beauty products! http://shopping.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 23:02:07 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Tomorrows shows? On Dec 5, 2003, at 10:40 PM, Maximilian Lang wrote: > Hey, > > Is there anyone going to tomorrow's shows who is taping them and > taking pubic transportation. They are now talking about a snow > emergency(roads closed) in NJ so I am not sure I can make it. $70.00 > down the drain if that happens. Hopefully I can get a recording that > I can listen to when I stop crying. They are taling about 10"-16" of > snow in NYC before it's all done. Yeah, today was just the beginning... I'm still debating on heading out tomorrow night depending on how bad it gets. The PATH train should be running, right? - -steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:18:03 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Tomorrows shows? on 12/5/03 8:02 PM, Steve Talkowski at stevetalkowski@mac.com wrote: > On Dec 5, 2003, at 10:40 PM, Maximilian Lang wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> Is there anyone going to tomorrow's shows who is taping them and >> taking pubic transportation. They are now talking about a snow >> emergency(roads closed) in NJ so I am not sure I can make it. $70.00 >> down the drain if that happens. Hopefully I can get a recording that >> I can listen to when I stop crying. They are taling about 10"-16" of >> snow in NYC before it's all done. > > Yeah, today was just the beginning... > > I'm still debating on heading out tomorrow night depending on how bad > it gets. The PATH train should be running, right? > Man, you guys are WIMPS! I once drove 35 miles in a blinding snowstorm to see a midnight showing of "The Great Rock N Roll Swindle" in Boston. Suck it up! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 23:26:48 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Tomorrows shows? >From: Tom Clark >Subject: Re: Tomorrows shows? >Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:18:03 -0800 >on 12/5/03 8:02 PM, Steve Talkowski at stevetalkowski@mac.com wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2003, at 10:40 PM, Maximilian Lang wrote: > >> Hey, > >> They are taling about 10"-16" of > >> snow in NYC before it's all done. > > Yeah, today was just the beginning... > > I'm still debating on heading out tomorrow night depending on how bad > > it gets. The PATH train should be running, right? >Man, you guys are WIMPS! I once drove 35 miles in a blinding snowstorm to >see a midnight showing of "The Great Rock N Roll Swindle" in Boston. >Suck it up! Talk to the governer of NJ, I will be there 1000% unless he calls a state of emergency in which case I will not be allowed to drive...it is possible. People here freak out when it snows, I have no fear of driving in the snow and I like the Rock N Roll Swindle despite it's faults. Max _________________________________________________________________ Our best dial-up offer is back. Get MSN Dial-up Internet Service for 6 months @ $9.95/month now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 20:28:18 -0800 (PST) From: anthony stokes Subject: dawg songs/album grading/reaps Just wanted to put my two cents in on the dawg songs, I've got one Zappa tune I think Jeffrey 2fs missed: The Poodle Lecture from YCDTOSA Vol. 6. which is an amusing narration on God's three big mistakes: the inventions of Man, Woman, and the Poodle. Definitely good for a chuckle anyday. On another subject I personally can't understand the slagging that Luxor has taken on this list. Great songs, great sound, a very intimate album. Sound of Sound and You Remind Me of You are IMHO among his best work (though not having a complete collection I doubt if I'm qualified to rate). My favorite RH is the stuff he does with just himself and a guitar. If I could learn to play guitar like Robyn I could die happy. Watching him play at the Bottom Line from about two feet away was an amazing education in fingerpicking. BTW, can anyone explain to me (without laughing at my blatant stupidity) what "reaps" are? I understand the common definition but I'm not quite sure whats being referenced when one of the most recent posts had the subject of "reap" and an account of his car having a flat. I guess I could find out from searching the archives but I simply don't have the time. Sorry you cant make the shows in NJ Grunty, don't you have any snowshoes? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #451 ********************************