From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #3 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, January 5 2004 Volume 13 : Number 003 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Crazy Robyn Dream [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Calexico/Neko Case ["Stewart C. Russell" ] snail, london, friday [Jim Davies ] Re: Poor Brit ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: snail, london, friday ["Marc Holden" ] RE: the CBE ["Matt Sewell" ] FW: [Tallulah] Top CDs of 2004 ["Bachman, Michael" ] What the hell? [Eb ] Re: What the hell? ["Jason R. Thornton" ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V13 #1 ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: What the hell? [FSThomas ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #1 [Ken Weingold ] TV fans... [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:37:37 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Crazy Robyn Dream >In the Bleak Midwinter -- kind of slow, but it IS Holst and it's my >favorite Christmas song. and Christina Rossetti, too, ISTR. Seems too incongruous for the middle of a heat-wave, though. I kinda like the rare minor chord carols, like "God rest ye merry, gentlemen", which would sound good sung by RH. The only other minor-chord carol I can think of is "We three kings" - and technically that's not a Christmas song but an Epiphany one. As for other carols I like, I also admire the blatant non-Christian imagery of "The holly and the ivy". Don't think a RH version would be that terrific, though. Of modern Christmas songs, I could do with less rotation of "Snoopy's Christmas" - possibly replacing it with "Stop the cavalry". If Robyn did a modern Christmas song, though, it should probably be "Little drummer boy" ("I brought a squid for him parapapumpum...") 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: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:35:31 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Calexico/Neko Case Marc Holden wrote: > > I just looked it up. It's a tenor guitar--4 string, a bit smaller than a > regular guitar. These also look identical to a baritone uke. I think the tuning's (usually) different, and ukes are usually nylon strung. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 22:41:51 GMT From: Jim Davies Subject: snail, london, friday Snail are playing the Metro, on Oxford Street, this Friday. I saw them before Christmas, and I was amazed. Brilliant. Now I know why Marc and Charlotte were so impressed. Doors open at 8.00. I don't know when they'll play, exactly, but there's a club afterwards, so they'll be finishing early. Probably by 10.00. So those of us from out of town can get home easily. x Jim ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:13:48 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Poor Brit Mike Swedene wrote: > > Where are the lawyers? It strikes me there is NO > PRE-NUP.... Kinda makes a mockery of the whole "sanctity of marriage" thing that anti-gay-marriage activists bang on about. BS can get married and get it annulled in a weekend -- as long as it's to a bloke. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 00:26:49 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: snail, london, friday - ----- Original Message ----- > Snail are playing the Metro, on Oxford Street, this Friday. I saw > them before Christmas, and I was amazed. Brilliant. Now I know why > Marc and Charlotte were so impressed. > Doors open at 8.00. I don't know when they'll play, exactly, but > there's a club afterwards, so they'll be finishing early. Probably by > 10.00. So those of us from out of town can get home easily. > x Jim I'll probably be missing this one. I'm taking some of my clients to a basketball game (Suns vs. the Kings), but I'd be willing to reschedule, if someone can give me a ride to the show. I'll have my passport ready, just in case... Later, Marc "I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves." Emo Philips ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:15:26 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: the CBE Commanders of the British Empire? I didn't think we had one anymore... Oh well, another couple of clapped-out, morally bankrupt arseholes to add to the long, long list of those going up against the wall come the revolution! Cheers Matt >From: Jill Brand >Ray Davies and Eric Clapton have been awarded the CBE. > >Jill - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send more interesting e-mails - personalise them with graphics, photos and stationery when you sign up for MSN 8. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:04:54 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: FW: [Tallulah] Top CDs of 2004 2003 in no order Robyn Hitchcock - Luxor The Postal Service - Give Up Pernice Bothers - Yours, Mine and Ours Mojave 3 - Spoon and Rafter Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Greendale Stacey Kent - The Boy Next Door Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Messengers The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears The White Stripes - Elephant I have yet to check out the 2003's from The Strokes, John Cale, Belle & Sebastian, New Pornographers, Calexico etc. I finally saw Lost In Translation over the Holidays. One of my fav's from 2003 for sure! Michael B. NP Neil Young Harvest ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:30:37 -0800 From: Eb Subject: !! Kinks' Ray Davies shot while thwarting robbery attempt Jan. 5, 2004 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Singer-songwriter Ray Davies of the Kinks was shot in the leg while chasing thieves who snatched a purse from a woman he was with, police said Monday. He was not seriously injured. Police said Davies, 59, and the woman were walking along the Quarter's Burgundy Street around 8:30 p.m. Sunday when the theft and shooting happened. Davies was treated and released at a hospital, Capt. Marlon Defillo, a police spokesman, said. One suspect was captured within hours of the shooting and another was being sought. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:15:50 -0800 From: Eb Subject: What the hell? Are LA/OC subscribers aware of this new station "Indie 103.1"? It's like college radio gone commercial! Wow! I just heard the Beastie Boys, the Smiths and Iggy Pop in a row.... As-yet-insubstantial website: http://www.independent.fm/ Eb (this won't last long) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 13:06:06 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: What the hell? At 12:15 PM 1/5/2004 -0800, Eb wrote: >Are LA/OC subscribers aware of this new station "Indie 103.1"? It's like >college radio gone commercial! Wow! And, oddly enough, it's a Clear Channel station, probably responding to the success of stations like 94.9 here in San Diego taking a chunk of the listenership in a market where they've otherwise got a near-monopoly - at least among the English-speaking audience. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:20:14 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V13 #1 Hey all. Anybody else get hit on by a 27 year old grandmother in a redneck bar over the holidays? Cause if not, y'all can eat my dust! Marc: >>just looked it up. It's a tenor guitar--4 string, a bit smaller than a >>regular guitar. And hey, I have one! A Harmony, no less, must be going on 50 years old. These were big back in the folk era, because everybody wanted to start a folk band and they were easy to learn what with the not having so many strings thing. You can see a few in A Mighty Wind; prolly the most famous one was the Mousegeetar on the Micky Mouse Club which also had the virtue (?) of being shaped like Mickey's head. That's what my dad always says, anyhow. Neko's is electric, right? Don't see that too often. I can hear Robyn doing some old weird carol like "The Boar's Head" and making it even weirder. And something like "Somerset Gloucester Wassail" lends itself to an improvised list of characters and activities fairly readily. So far 2004 sucks slightly less than 2003, but it will remain too early to call until November, for obvious reasons... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 16:24:25 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: What the hell? Jason R. Thornton wrote: > At 12:15 PM 1/5/2004 -0800, Eb wrote: > >> Are LA/OC subscribers aware of this new station "Indie 103.1"? It's >> like college radio gone commercial! Wow! > > > And, oddly enough, it's a Clear Channel station, probably responding > to the success of stations like 94.9 here in San Diego taking a chunk > of the listenership in a market where they've otherwise got a > near-monopoly - at least among the English-speaking audience. As I've mentioned to Senor Eb under separate cover: don't necessarily believe the hype. Clear Channel premiered a station in Connecticut some years back that was fantastic--when it first came out. They went in a sparse format without DJs to speak of, and few commercials. They had apparently no playlist, and stuck to excellent newer and really superb older indie music--stuff that otherwise is left to the low end of the dial. Within four months they got DJs, got playlists, and slipped on the Corporate Modern Rock Suck Suit. The last time I was up north I was surprised to see they changed formats. Now they're a hip-hop station. Just as much suck, but of a different variety. - -ferris. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:25:17 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #1 On Mon, Jan 5, 2004, Rex.Broome wrote: > > Anybody else get hit on by a 27 year old grandmother in a redneck > bar over the holidays? Cause if not, y'all can eat my dust! Here's the question: why were you in said redneck bar? - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:04:28 -0800 From: Eb Subject: TV fans... Does anyone have anything wonderful to say about the show "Arrested Development"? I keep hearing buzz about it, but have yet to see an episode. I taped the "rerun marathon" which was on recently, but somehow accidentally taped over it. Drat. Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #3 ******************************