From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #29 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, January 27 2004 Volume 13 : Number 029 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Is McDonald's Healthy? ["Brian" ] Re: Is McDonald's Healthy? [Tom Clark ] Re: Is McDonald's Healthy? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Is McDonald's Healthy? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] reap [Eb ] Oscar nominations come out [Eb ] RE: Oscar nominations come out ["Bachman, Michael" ] Iiii'm baaack!/looking for info [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] RE: Oscar nominations come out ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Oscar nominations come out [Steve Talkowski ] Re: Legends of the South Wight: The Glass Hotel. [grutness@surf4nix.com (] RE: Oscar nominations come out ["Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" ] gnatmaniax: a night of bad facial hair with Jay Farrar and Canyon ["Natal] Re: Iiii'm baaack!/looking for info [Caroline Smith ] Re: gnatmaniax: a night of bad facial hair with Jay Farrar and Canyon [Mi] Re: gnatmaniax: a night of bad facial hair with Jay Farrar and Canyon [Mi] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:34:00 -0500 From: "Brian" Subject: Is McDonald's Healthy? I think we all know the answer to that, but this seems worth seeing: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/entertainmentstorydisplay.cfmstoryID=3545438&thesection=entertainment&thesubsection=film&thesecondsubsection=general - -Nuppy - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:48:56 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Is McDonald's Healthy? on 1/27/04 9:34 AM, Brian at nightshadecat@mailbolt.com wrote: > I think we all know the answer to that, but this seems worth seeing: > > http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/entertainmentstorydisplay.cfmstoryID=3 > 545438&thesection=entertainment&thesubsection=film&thesecondsubsection=general > > -Nuppy This might work better: http://tinyurl.com/33epb - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:36:38 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Is McDonald's Healthy? Tom Clark wrote: > > http://tinyurl.com/33epb It has a super-catchy theme song: Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:37:33 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Is McDonald's Healthy? Tom Clark wrote: > > http://tinyurl.com/33epb It has a super-catchy theme song: (which Catherine used in her ESL class, incidentally) Stewart (snow day!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:22:25 -0800 From: Eb Subject: reap Jack Paar, 85 Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:51:51 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Oscar nominations come out http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nomineelist.html Seems to me like the acting nominations are unusually blah, this year. Not much in the way of "breakout performances," because the films of Bill Murray and Charlize Theron were basically arthouse films. Amazing that "The Fog of War" represents Errol Morris' first Oscar nomination. Disgraceful. I guess the well of Holocaust documentaries ran dry this year. Random observation: With "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King," "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and "Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World" leading the pack, is this the *wordiest* set of Oscar-nominated titles ever? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:20:29 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Oscar nominations come out I was hoping that Scarlett Johannson would get nominated for Lost in Translation in one of the actress categories. Oh well. I am glad that Keisha Castle-Hughes from The Whale Rider got nominated for Best Actress. Michael NP Aimee Mann Lost In Space Special Edition - -----Original Message----- From: Eb [mailto:ElBroome@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:52 PM To: fgz Subject: Oscar nominations come out http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nomineelist.html Seems to me like the acting nominations are unusually blah, this year. Not much in the way of "breakout performances," because the films of Bill Murray and Charlize Theron were basically arthouse films. Amazing that "The Fog of War" represents Errol Morris' first Oscar nomination. Disgraceful. I guess the well of Holocaust documentaries ran dry this year. Random observation: With "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King," "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and "Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World" leading the pack, is this the *wordiest* set of Oscar-nominated titles ever? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:25:23 -0500 From: UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com Subject: Re: Oscar nominations come out > Seems to me like the acting nominations are unusually blah, > this year. Not much in the way of "breakout performances," > because the films of Bill Murray and Charlize Theron were > basically arthouse films. What ever do you mean? What do arthouse films have to do with anything? Certainly Keisha Castle-Hughes certainly qualifies as a "breakout performance" under any standard. 11 years old and nominated for Best Actress? Methinks somebody should have gone to the movie theater more than once in 2003 before making such sweeping statements > Amazing that "The Fog of War" represents Errol Morris' > first Oscarnomination. Disgraceful. I guess the well of > Holocaust documentaries ran dry this year. Well, Errol finally went and made a Vietnam related doc. Which is runner up to the holocaust in these sorts of awards. Later, Nora np- Isobel Campbell "Amorino ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:33:05 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Oscar nominations come out Eb wrote: > > ... is this the *wordiest* set of Oscar-nominated titles ever? no, just the ones most in need of a colonic. "A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow" has *got* to win best song. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:44:58 -0800 From: "Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" Subject: RE: Oscar nominations come out Michael Bachman: > I was hoping that Scarlett Johannson would get nominated for Lost in > Translation in one of the actress categories. Oh well. I am glad that > Keisha Castle-Hughes from The Whale Rider got nominated for Best Actress. I read today that the studio may have screwed her out of a nomination via vote splitting by promoting her for Supporting Actress when it was clearly a leading role. I'm pretty pleased with the nominations over all, lots of unexpected nominations for City of God. But what's up with all the love for Seabiscuit and where was the best song nomination for School of Rock??? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:59:55 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: RE: Oscar nominations come out At 05:20 PM 1/27/2004 -0500, Bachman, Michael wrote: >I am glad that >Keisha Castle-Hughes from The Whale Rider got nominated for Best Actress. While I thought the film was really quite good, I found Castle-Hughes's performance somewhat mediocre - although spectacular perhaps for her age. Maybe they should have a kids category. Much better than Diane Keaton's, though. Glad Whale Rider got nominated for something, at least. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:07:20 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Iiii'm baaack!/looking for info I'm back, and I bet you didn't even notice I'd gone. My ISP went foom on Friday, and I couldn't get email messages in or out from my grutness account until this morning. Looking through recent digests online, I note that Craigie* replied to my request for info on a band... >Re: looking for info... > >i *think* this may be Jebediah.... > >Number One has these lyrics... > >"[...]" nope, that's not it. This one was definitely *I* threw it away. Something like "I threw it away on the ocean, and I threw it away on the sea" The original info one more time: >> looking for info on an odd but oddly endearing artist. >> >> I've heard two songs. A slowish one which seems to be called "Threw it >> away", and one with a gleeful chorus about "going underground, down next to >> your next of kin". >> >> The sound is new-wavey - the original new wave: gloriously unslick, and it >> sounds like they're having fun working out what the instruments can do. >> It's early B-52s/Talking Heads-ish, and the singer sounds like the bastard >> daughter of Tom Verlaine. Yet somehow it feels a little more recent. And >> here's the kicker clue - the main instruments include accordion. >> >> The questions: who is this? Are they still recording? Any recommendations? 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: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:18:51 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: RE: Oscar nominations come out At 02:44 PM 1/27/2004 -0800, Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\) wrote: >where was the best song nomination for School of Rock??? Am I the only one that's excited that T Bone and Elvis Costello got their first oscars noms for some song in Cold Mountain that I haven't heard? - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:30:23 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Oscar nominations come out On Jan 27, 2004, at 6:18 PM, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > At 02:44 PM 1/27/2004 -0800, Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\) wrote: > >> where was the best song nomination for School of Rock??? > > Am I the only one that's excited that T Bone and Elvis Costello got > their first oscars noms for some song in Cold Mountain that I haven't > heard. Nope! Ecstatic over here, especially since the Academy snubbed the wonderful "God Give Me Strength" which SHOULD have been nominated a few years ago... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:31:06 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Legends of the South Wight: The Glass Hotel. >Subject: > >Sheesh, nothing out of me for years and then all of a sudden..! > >This is just to let y'all know I made some general updates to the Glass >Hotel... it was about time, too! > >Several links pages have been cleaned up, so click with confidence. > >If you can think of anything that needs changing or want something added >to it, let me know! This site was made for you! > >http://glasshotel.net/gh oo. Good work! As to adding things to it, I suppose you could add a link to my website on the laboratory page (the addy is in the sig file below) 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: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:40:39 -0800 From: "Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" Subject: RE: Oscar nominations come out Steve Talkowski wrote: > On Jan 27, 2004, at 6:18 PM, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > > At 02:44 PM 1/27/2004 -0800, Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\) wrote: > >> where was the best song nomination for School of Rock??? > > > > Am I the only one that's excited that T Bone and Elvis Costello got > > their first oscars noms for some song in Cold Mountain that I haven't > > heard. > > Nope! > > Ecstatic over here, especially since the Academy snubbed the wonderful > "God Give Me Strength" which SHOULD have been nominated a few years > ago... I'm kind of bothered by my non-reaction. I feel like I should go take down my Elvis posters or something. "God Give Me Strength" now that was a great song! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:48:50 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: Iiii'm baaack!/looking for info On Jan 27, 2004, at 6:07 PM, James Dignan wrote: > > nope, that's not it. This one was definitely *I* threw it away. > Something > like "I threw it away on the ocean, and I threw it away on the sea" > oh ... "I threw it away on the ocean And then I threw it away on the sky So what do I need with the ocean And what do I need with the sky?" That would be "Threw it Away" off of L'Avventura. Great song off of an even better album by Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham. One of my favs from last year. It's a cover. Info from website: "By Deans good friend Angel Corpus Christi, from her White Courtesy Phone album. Angel Corpus Christi is a San Francisco based singer and accordionist with a unique style." http://www.deanandbritta.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:21:24 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: RE: Oscar nominations come out - -- "Bachman, Michael" is rumored to have mumbled on Dienstag, 27. Januar 2004 17:20 Uhr -0500 regarding RE: Oscar nominations come out: > NP Aimee Mann Lost In Space Special Edition I'm still waiting for my copy. I pre-ordered it, but apparently the first package they sent got lost in the mail :-( Now I'm waiting for the replacement package... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:41:57 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Iiii'm baaack!/looking for info On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Caroline Smith wrote: > That would be "Threw it Away" off of L'Avventura. Great song off of an > even better album by Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham. One of my favs > from last year. So what about the other song? The one referencing "next of kin"? > It's a cover. Info from website: > "By Deans good friend Angel Corpus Christi, from her White Courtesy > Phone album. > Angel Corpus Christi is a San Francisco based singer and accordionist > with a unique style." Does the Dean and Britta version have an accordian as well? I got the impression from James that the other song he heard had accordian as well. Perhaps James is hearing Angel Corpus Christi instead of Dean and Britta? J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:55:29 -0800 From: "Natalie Jacobs" Subject: gnatmaniax: a night of bad facial hair with Jay Farrar and Canyon Yeah, so I went to see Jay Farrar last night. He was performing with a band called Canyon, who were both his opening and his back-up band, like with Beck and the Flaming Lips, except with no people dressed up as animals and no fake blood. I was excited because, not having been into Son Volt when they were around, I had never seen Jay with a full band, and I figured it might liven up his somber songs and stage presence. I was right (as I so seldom am). Now, some of you might remember that the last time I saw Jay in July, I gave the opening act Tim Easton a tinfoil sculpture of St. Genevieve to deliver to Jay, seeing as how Jay doesn't fraternize with fans and I couldn't give it to him myself. I never knew whether it got to him or not. So as it happens, at last night's show I was sitting next to a guy named Leo, and mentioned that I made tinfoil sculptures. "Oh, that was YOU who made that!" he cried, and told me about how he and his friends had run into Jay after the July show, and asked to take a picture with him. Jay grumbled a bit, but said it was OK because "I have Genevieve for good luck." He had my tinfoil St. Genevieve stuck in his shirt pocket! Upon hearing this, I naturally shrieked with excitement. I talked to the woman who took the picture and she said she'll scan it and send it to me, and of course I will show it to all of you, should you be so inclined. So Canyon, a bunch of scruffy guys with facial hair in various states of disarray, took the stage. They were mainly remarkable in that the singer had a high nasally quaver like the Jayhawks' Marc Olson, and the keyboardist was Asian  I've never seen an Asian guy in this type of band before. They played decent but somewhat pedestrian psychedelic-tinged "roots-rock," for want of a better name. Maybe it's because of the horse-doctor's doses of Sonic Youth and Gastr del Sol I've been swallowing lately, but the more I hear bands like this, the more I wonder, "What's the point?" I mean, they didn't suck, but a band has to be something really, really special before they can transcend such an extremely conservative genre and actually say something new, and Canyon didn't make the cut. I did like the guitarist's reverb-drenched slide playing  he used an E-bow, which I did not mistake for an electric razor the way I did with the Flaming Lips. Actually, it looked more like a cell phone. So then Jay Farrar took the stage. He still has that bad goatee and his bangs need trimming. He sang a couple of songs by himself, and then the guys from Canyon came out and joined him. It was pretty strange to watch them together  Jay was as stoic and unmoving as always, while the Canyon guys were rocking out and having a blast. Jay did seem to be in lighter spirits than usual, though  he talked a little more between songs, and even smiled a few times. He has a surprisingly sweet smile. He should try using it more often, though that might mar his mystique. Most of the setlist was not from his latest record, Terroir Blues, but rather from his first solo record, Sebastopol. The Terroir Blues songs, with the full band, were considerably less dull than they are on record, but still didn't really move me all that much. The Sebastopol songs, on the other hand, fuckin' smoked, in particular "Feed Kill Chain" and "Damn Shame." I can't believe that I was actually strongly tempted to get up and dance during a Jay Farrar show  I didn't because nobody else was dancing, and I'm a wuss  but man, it was hard to stay in my seat. I realized during this show that, despite being held up as the torchbearer of alt-country (the guy who kept the faith, unlike his former bandmate), Jay has strayed very far from his roots, especially with the strong streak of Indian influence that runs through his newer material. Maybe some people do think he's an apostate, but it all sounded great to me. And of course it was awe-inspiring and an honor to hear at close range Jay's gorgeous baritone, one of the best voices in rock or alt-country, still as powerful as ever. For the first encore, Jay came out alone again and sang his big crowd-pleasers, "Tear-Stained Eye" and "Windfall," from Son Volt's first album, as well as another song which the crowd seemed to recognize and which I assumed was another Son Volt song (I don't have all their records). During "Tear-Stained Eye" some of the audience members (including me) finally broke down their inhibitions and came up to stand in front of the stage. I find both these songs extremely moving and got a bit teary-eyed during "Windfall," but I was expecting that. What I wasn't expecting was the guy who had been sitting next to me to start singing along loudly directly behind me. I had to go stand somewhere else. This same guy had been giving what my friend Jane called "instant replay" throughout the show  after each song, he'd sing a couple of lines of it, as if to remind himself that it had actually been played. It was very annoying. For the second encore, the guys from Canyon re-emerged and they all launched into an extremely incongruous but thoroughly whup-ass cover of Pink Floyd's "Lucifer Sam." I never thought I'd see the guy who pioneered alt-country singing a Syd Barrett composition, but he did a fine job of it. "Lucifer Sam" segued neatly into Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane," which totally rocked (I need to start listening to more Neil Young), and ended the show on an excellent note. And that's all that happened. n. _________________________________________________________________ High-speed usersbe more efficient online with the new MSN Premium Internet Software. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=byoa/prem&ST=1 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:22:57 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: Iiii'm baaack!/looking for info >> It's a cover. Info from website: >> "By Deans good friend Angel Corpus Christi, from her White Courtesy >> Phone album. >> Angel Corpus Christi is a San Francisco based singer and accordionist >> with a unique style." > > Does the Dean and Britta version have an accordian as well? I got the > impression from James that the other song he heard had accordian as > well. > Perhaps James is hearing Angel Corpus Christi instead of Dean and > Britta? > A fine piece of investigative journalism. James, I believe we have your band. (I haven't heard the Angel Corpus Christi version of this song ... but the same lyrics AND an accordian? must be!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:12:56 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: gnatmaniax: a night of bad facial hair with Jay Farrar and Canyon On Jan 27, 2004, at 6:55 PM, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > I did like the guitarist's reverb-drenched slide playing  he used an > E-bow, which I did not mistake for an electric razor the way I did > with the Flaming Lips. But wouldn't using an ebow as a slide negate the original purpose of the device? - - Steve __________ Well, is he [bin Laden] the enemy? Next slide. Or is this man [Saddam] the enemy? The enemy is none of these people I have showed you here. The enemy is a spiritual enemy. Hes called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan. - Lt. General William G. "Jerry" Boykin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:35:57 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: gnatmaniax: a night of bad facial hair with Jay Farrar and Canyon > > I did like the guitarist's reverb-drenched slide playing  > he used an > > E-bow, which I did not mistake for an electric razor the way I did > > with the Flaming Lips. > > > But wouldn't using an ebow as a slide negate the original purpose of > the device? I assume she means he used the E-bow to drive the string at the pickup, in the right hand, and a slide in the left hand like normal. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:49:57 -0800 From: Eb Subject: that juggernaut silent-film thread >John McIntyre wrote: >The Odeon was a small movie theater in Lansing MI that at the time >was owned by a real lover of movies who was living off his >inheritance and therefore did not need to make a living off the >theater. He mainly showed "art" films, frequently with subtitles. >Some of the bigger titles shown were The Ice Storm and The Sweet >Hereafter. The Odeon was also the only movie theater in town with a >16 mm projector, and Frank, the owner, would sometimes show older >films with it. There was a United Artists chain theater in the same >shopping center, and Frank took great pride that while that theater >was celebrating United Artists 75th anniversary, he was the one >showing the old United Artists films because they didn't have a 16 >mm projector. > >So I asked him if he would like live music played while the movie >was running, and he took me up on the offer. I played mostly for >horror movies such as Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Nosferatu, but also >for Buster Keaton's The General, three Rudolph Valentino pictures >Blood and Sand, The Black Eagle, and The Cobra, and two Carl Dreyer >pictures The Passion of Joan of Arc and Leaves From Satan's Book. > >I would get ahold of a videotape of the movie beforehand and study >it to get ideas, but I did not compose a strict score. Then the day >of the showing, I'd set my gear up in front of the screen and play >along as the movie ran. Most of the shows I played solo, but I had >a guitarist with me for the double bill of Hell's Hinges and Riders >of the Purple Sage as Frank had asked for more guitar for the >Westerns, and a synth player helped me with Nosferatu, Metropolis, >and Faust. > >The reasons for not composing a strict score were two-fold. First, >Frank ran the films at sound speed (24 frames per second) while most >videotapes used silent speed (22 frames per second), so any score >written to the videotape would quickly get out of sync with the >projected film. Second, there was no guarantee that the print Frank >was showing would match the tape I'd been watching. Sometimes >scenes might be switched around, sometimes a scene I'd prepared for >was missing, and sometimes there was stuff on the screen I'd never >seen before. Kept things interesting. (-8 > >Most of the time attendance was very sparse: a dozen people was a >good turn-out. For the first performance of Hell's Hinges/Riders of >the Purple Sage, absolutely no one showed up. Frank ran the film >anyway, and we considered it a rehearsal. The film critic for the >Lansing paper doesn't like silent movies, so there was rarely any >mention of our showings except in the small ads that Frank could >afford and in the handbills he'd post at the theater. We did get a >good turn-out for a Halloween showing of Metropolis. It was my >first performance with my new Theremin, and we used that as a hook >to get the newspaper to run a short story about the upcoming >performance. And the house was packed for the final showing of >Faust. (The door prize that evening was won by the former owner of >the theater.) That was a great tale! Strangely, you neglected to mention your own instrument. Piano? Organ? Synthesizer? Some combination of the above? Pan flute? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:57:35 -0500 (EST) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: gnatmaniax: a night of bad facial hair with Jay Farrar and Canyon Natalie: >Yeah, so I went to see Jay Farrar last night. He was performing with a band >called Canyon, > >So Canyon... took the stage.... the more I >hear bands like this, the more I wonder, "What's the point?" I mean, they >didn't suck, but a band has to be something really, really special before >they can transcend such an extremely conservative genre and actually say >something new, and Canyon didn't make the cut. [Jay's set] >Most of the setlist was not from his latest record, Terroir Blues, but >rather from his first solo record, Sebastopol. The Terroir Blues songs, >with the full band, were considerably less dull than they are on record, but >still didn't really move me all that much. The Sebastopol songs, on the >other hand, fuckin' smoked, in particular "Feed Kill Chain" and "Damn >Shame." > >For the first encore, Jay came out alone again and sang his big >crowd-pleasers, "Tear-Stained Eye" and "Windfall," from Son Volt's first >album, > >For the second encore, the guys from Canyon re-emerged and they all launched >into an extremely incongruous but thoroughly whup-ass cover of Pink Floyd's >"Lucifer Sam." I never thought I'd see the guy who pioneered alt-country >singing a Syd Barrett composition, but he did a fine job of it. "Lucifer >Sam" segued neatly into Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane," which totally >rocked (I need to start listening to more Neil Young), and ended the show on >an excellent note. I remember this show. I remember this review -- well, minus tinfoil thoth, third (possibly Son Volt) song in the solo encore, and "Lucifer Sam." Hey, there it is! http://www.smoe.org/lists/fegmaniax/v12.n352 Hm, that reads a little too enthusiastic about Canyon than I remember actually feeling at the time. I should have slipped the word "generic" in there somewhere, though I think it was implied, and I certainly still think everyone should buy Nadine records instead. Canyon's very competent at what they do, and they were great in support of Jay (which probably contributed to the positive feeling in my review), but they're indistinguishable from Lucero and and a dozen other alt-country-ish bands out there. If you were to say to your spouse/s.o., "Honey, we're almost out of alt-country... on your way home, stop by Miles of Music and pick up some more," they'd come home with Canyon or something that sounded just like them. Anyway, Natalie's observations line up with what Melissa and I thought of our Farrar/Canyon show from last summer, and it's always good to know that you're not insane, or at least not alone in your insanity. I will also endorse without reservation Natalie's concert reviews -- I'm always totally psyched to see a "gnatmaniax" subjet line waiting in my inbox. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:23:43 -0500 (EST) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: gnatmaniax: a night of bad facial hair with Jay Farrar and Canyon You know, I thought I corrected this: >I remember this show. I remember this review -- well, minus tinfoil thoth ...but I must have just thought that I did, rather than actually doing it. Maybe I was going to make sure how to spell "Genevieve" and just forgot to do that before hitting the "send" button. It does provide a "you know you've been on fegmaniax too long when..." moment: when you automatically follow the word "tinfoil" with the word "thoth." Incidentally, the #1 result at the moment on Google for a search for "genevieve" is the section of the TRADING SPACES site devote to Genevieve Gorder. Of course, I heartily approve. But if any of you have ever seen the episode in Minneapolis where Gen and Doug do the rooms, you know that Genevieve's *mom* is even hotter than Gen herself. Good lord. later, Miles ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #29 *******************************