From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #52 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 21 2004 Volume 13 : Number 052 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Smile ["Jason R. Thornton" ] My Swiped Bicycle ["Rex.Broome" ] don't matter [Jill Brand ] Re: A sign from above? [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Mel's Jesus!!! The final wurdzzzz [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: My Swiped Bicycle [Jon Lewis ] Smile setlist ["Maximilian Lang" ] This morning's 10k (0% music content) [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:55:14 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Smile At 07:49 AM 2/20/2004 -0500, Maximilian Lang wrote: >I don't know if I am the only one here interested but tonight, in London, >Brian Wilson performs Smile in public for the first time. This story actually made the front page of the LA Times today: http://tinyurl.com/2uzaw In related news, they're trying to make the freeway wall that was once the Wilsons' home in Hawthorne a historical landmark. http://tinyurl.com/ywz9x - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:05:24 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: My Swiped Bicycle Eb: >>I didn't remember that Rex observed the same circus-bike phenomenon >>awhile back. Strange. Even down to the owner having a gang-like >>orientation. Actually, reading up on your clarifications, what you saw was a wee bit weirder than my sighting... but it sounds like an extension (truncation?) of the same phenomenon. Those guys on little bikes have certainly continued to proliferate, though... I'm gonna guess that I had the trendspotting advantage (?) in that I probably like in/near a gang-ier area than most fegs, but one shouldn't presume. Anyways, when I first started seeing them they looked like garden-variety piece-of-shit kids' bikes, but they do seem a bit more tricked out these days. Capitalism, I guess-- take something that becomes cool for being cheap, and make it expensive. Happened quickly in this instance. I haven't had a bike since I had my old dirtroad-friendly 10-speed shipped to South Central so I could bike to class, only to spend half a day fishing it out of the deep end of my friend's swimming pool, and then get mugged *off* of it a week later, losing both the bike itself and about a month's worth of pain-free lower-body mobility in the process. Jon: >>I'm guessing it'll be of interest to a good portion of y'all that >>Television are playing in New York City on the 25th and 26th of >>March, at Irving Plaza. Tickets are $26.50 preorder. Ouch, but it hurts >>so good. I've been waiting for three years for a chance to see 'em... >>well, 19 years, since I first heard MM, but it's only been an earthly >>possibility for the last 3. So all those shows in '93 were all in my mind? Does that make my ticket stubs... souvenirs from a dream? (Ducks to avoid hail of rotting vegetables...) - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:34:52 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: don't matter Jeff D wrote about Mel Gibson: "Or rather, when he was "pretending" to be Australian (he was born in New York state, and only moved to Australia when his whackjob father decided to have the whole family dodge the draft re: Vietnam (though that's not why dad's a whackjob)." All true. Still, he was better in the Aussie movies, possibly because they are Aussie movies. And, indeed, his father sounds like a proverbial piece of work. He makes Lefebvre (sp?) sound liberal. Yes, Patch Adams does make Dead Poet Society look like a work of art. Still, I get the same rash every time Robin Williams does his "I may be male but I'm vulnerable and passionate" thing. It's almost as if he has to counterbalance his comic side with overstated pathos. This is very different from Bill Murray's ability to be sad and serious in a quiet way (I love Bill Murray; if anyone wants to trash him, be nice about it). I use Groundhog Day in my ESL classes, mostly because there is so much repetition that the students feel victorious when they understand something the third time they've heard it. Yet, I appreciate the sorrow in the character behind all the comedy. Murray's character in Lost in Translation is not at all unlike his character in Groundhog Day. I'll be quiet now. Oh yeah, with the Red Sox hierarchy humiliating itself, I'll give a dying gasp of "How about those Patriots." Jill, finally taking down her 6'4" stand-up Tom Brady cardboard cut-out ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:42:16 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: A sign from above? >Damn you Dignan! too late, I'm sure! >Is this really true, though? I know that before lightning strikes >streamers go from the ground towards the lightning, but surely this >doesn't necessarily mean that electricity is generated from the >ground...? can't find a reference for it, but I'm pretty sure this is right... anyone else have the infor? >I'll bet you'll be telling me god's not a woman next! Of course she is. He's a man as well. >Monster truck makeover: Presented by Rupert Murdoch and Arnold >Schwarzenegger. Each week Rupe and Arnie take delapidated socialists and, >with a little TV magic and *just three days*, turn them into >top-of-the-range SUVs! just so long as they've got tiny little wheels. 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, 20 Feb 2004 17:49:14 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Mel's Jesus!!! The final wurdzzzz I don't have a link for this since the person who sent it to me didn't have one but since Mel's JEEZUSS!! came up, someone posted this on some blog somewhere: ===== How true. Speaking of, I wonder what Mel's gonna have Jesus's last words be? And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Matthew 27:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. Luke 23:46 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. John 19:30 Of course, since it's Mel Gibson, I'm kinda hoping Jesus's last words will be "I'm gettin' too old for this shit!" ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:54:38 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: My Swiped Bicycle > So all those shows in '93 were all in my mind? Does that make my > ticket stubs... souvenirs from a dream? (Ducks to avoid hail of > rotting vegetables...) > > -Rex > > No no, I just never had the slightest opportunity to get to any of those. Can't wait to hear some of the evidence on the Academy disc. I was also hellbent on catching one of Verlaine's live film music things, but never got the chance. Those were really hard to find out about. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:26:03 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Smile setlist I guess most people with a Smile bootleg will know these titles. Many of the songs that seemed to be instrumental have lyrics. Max Prayer Heroes And Villains Do You Like Worms Barnyard The Old Master Painter Cabinessence Wonderful Child Is Father of the Man Surf's Up I'm In Great Shape Workshop Vegetables Holiday Wind Chimes Mrs O'Leary's Cow I Love You Da Da _________________________________________________________________ Store more e-mails with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage  4 plans to choose from! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:56:35 -0800 From: Eb Subject: This morning's 10k (0% music content) Pardon my indulgence.... So, I ran in my third official 10K this morning. My first since last July 4th. The bad news: I probably would have run a minute faster, if the race had happened a week and a half ago. I've had a really lousy week of running, due to aches, pains and blisters. The good news: 1. Almost three minutes faster than my time, last July 2. About a minute faster than I expected 3. Surprisingly, I achieved the big goal: under 50 minutes There wasn't an official printout of the results, but it looked like my time was 49:50 or 49:51. I just barely crept into the forties. ;) The winning time was something like 31 minutes. Amazing. If I had run about *12* minutes faster, I could have medaled in my age group. I haven't seen the official results, but I found a chart of *last* year's results on the Web, and I would've finished about 140th out of 413 in that field. "Respectable," I guess. Rain threatened all morning. Drops on the windshield on the drive down, some more drops while waiting for the race to begin. Not much during the race itself, but it drizzled more while hearing the award announcements. This is the first time I've run in an official race while wearing my windbreaker. I suspect the field was smaller than usual, because of the rain threat. I think this was also the first race I've run where there was an inline-skater category. Wheelchairs (just five?) and inline skaters took off a couple of minutes before the runners. There was also a separate 5K race, which started a hour before the 10K. I didn't arrive early enough to see it start. There was a slightly weird vibe to the scene, because it was set on an army base. The run took place around the runways of the airstrip - -- which happily meant the course was dead, dead flat. Soldiers in camouflage were everywhere, serving as traffic guides and the like. Several large military vehicles on display for the kiddies to play on. A bit creepy. Especially since they had a boombox blasting near the vehicles, playing a CD of, well, you know, those formalized grunts and things which soldiers make while doing their rhythmic exercises. Mui macho. Entering the grounds required showing a photo ID, though I didn't really see what purpose this served. It's not as if they checked for your name on some master runner list -- all they determined was that you own a photo ID which looks like you. Whatever. There were the worst "perks" of any race I've been in: cups of water instead of bottled, nothing to eat except orange slices, no goodie bag and they were out of XL T-shirts. They had interested parties scrawl their addresses on envelopes, to be sent a XL shirt later. We'll see if it arrives. The $22 reg fee benefitted "the USA Water Polo National Aquatic Center," whatever the hell that is.... I saw a happy little dog which was obviously blind. Aww. Girl-watching: worse than usual. I'd give it a B- at best. Tsk. Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #52 *******************************