From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #64 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, March 2 2004 Volume 13 : Number 064 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: New version of RH 50th bit torrent available [Ken Weingold ] re: random Google/blast from our past [Capuchin ] Fwd: regarding top QoL cities [Eb ] Re: Dead fish aren't much fun ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: I swore I'd never do this [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] 2 weeks until D-Day ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Top 10 cities ["Palle Hoffstein" ] Tenor guitar (slight return) ["Rex.Broome" ] Wonder Falls ["Sumiko Keay" ] attn: nyc fegs [fingerpuppets ] Re: Wonder Falls [Eb ] Re: SGM (was attn: nyc fegs) [Roberta Cowan ] Re: Wonder Falls ["Sumiko Keay" ] Re: Tenor guitar (slight return) [Eb ] reap [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: Wonder Falls ["Brian Huddell" ] RE: Wonder Falls [Eb ] Wow [Jeff Dwarf ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 22:57:08 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: New version of RH 50th bit torrent available On Mon, Mar 1, 2004, steve wrote: > Anybody know something on the Mac side that will convert flac to aiff > or mp3? Get xACT. It will decode flac, shorten, and more. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 21:35:39 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: New version of RH 50th bit torrent available I use MacFlac in OS X. Does nicely :0) email me off list if u need any other help with software. mike - --- steve wrote: > On Feb 29, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Christopher Carville > wrote: > > > It is an aud md master> flac transfer. > > > Anybody know something on the Mac side that will > convert flac to aiff > or mp3? > > > > - Steve > __________ > maxwell thereat carefree coronate bluet baleen gemma > incomparable > aborning reside artemis lynch ain't bosch jackman ===== - --------------------------------------------- Rebuilding my websight: http://www34.brinkster.com/bflomidy/ _____________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:04:52 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: New version of RH 50th bit torrent available > On Mon, Mar 1, 2004, steve wrote: >> Anybody know something on the Mac side that will convert flac to aiff >> or mp3? On Mar 1, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Ken Weingold wrote: > > > Get xACT. It will decode flac, shorten, and more. Cool, and easy! - - Steve __________ Folks looking to boycott French and German goods over those countries' positions on Iraq haven't been doing their research. Polls show 64 percent of boycotters think Grey Poupon is French, 70 percent think Dutch Heineken is German, and 42 percent think GM-owned Saab is German. And only 30 percent know that the French controlled Universal Pictures. - - Reason ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:08:51 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Top 10 cities >Interestingly, no UK or US city makes the top 10 for QoL: >http://tinyurl.com/2duot > >It looks as if Barbara is the best located urban listmember! surprisingly, New Zealand's most appalling, congested, overpriced and unfriendly city made the top 10. Sadly, Christchurch and Dunedin ar never listed in these things (too small, I suppose), but Auckland in the top 10? Overseas cities must be more horrible than I ever imagined. 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, 2 Mar 2004 00:16:43 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: re: random Google/blast from our past Scott Hunter McCleary sez: > So I was Googling used CD stores in the Detroit area tonight and what > should pop up but Fegmaniax Digest Volume 2 Number 25 from April 1994 > (you know, when Miles and Gene were in college and lj musta been a > teenager at that point...). I was in graduate school, i.e., living hell. I'd finished my undergraduate work in 1988. > Nice to see some of the love it/hate it > debate on Perspex Island, I hope I was on the "love" side! Still am. ye olde resolute defender of PI and DecAy, Miles now lamenting: the lack of Betty Bonifassi images on the Internet ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:30:15 -0800 From: Barbara E Soutar Subject: Cities fit to live in Mike Godwin wrote: "It looks as if Barbara is the best located urban listmember!" Although it was Vancouver listed as the third best city to live in, yes, I do share the same good quality of life offered by the Canadian west coast. Back I go to wallow in it.Congratulations to New Zealanders who are now on the Hollywood map! Even French Canada scored a win with an Oscar for best foreign film - The Barbarian Invasion! Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:30:16 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: re: random Google/blast from our past On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Miles Goosens wrote: > ye olde resolute defender of PI and DecAy, Alas, I may be yet and still the sole defender of DecOy. Oi! Oi! Oi! J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 01:39:16 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Fwd: regarding top QoL cities I was asked to forward this message from a feisty ex-Feglister who wished to speak up on the issue of Auckland.... Eb - ----------------------------- OK, James is clearly smoking the P (for provincial) here. I'll give you this, James: Auckland's house prices are too high (although have you scoped out Sydney's or London's or San Francisco's real estate lately??), and it has some bad traffic during rush hour (and I have to sit in it, so I know). However, I will not stand by and have my hometown maligned as 'appalling' and 'unfriendly'! By the standards of *whom*? Trust me - on an objective judgement scale, pretty much *all* of New Zealand's cities are beautiful, well-run, friendly, clean places with a lot to recommend them. Even Christchurch, my least favourite New Zealand city, is hardly chopped liver. Auckland is surrounded by beautiful swimming and surf beaches, both white and black sand; it has *two* harbours; it has a terrific amount of green space, including a giant reserve in the Waitakere Ranges right at its doorstep; it's the largest Polynesian city in the world, with attendant cultural wonders; it has almost constant film festivals throughout the winter (the International, the Incredible, the Italian, the Asian, the GLBT...) and free outdoor cultural celebrations throughout the summer (Pasifika! the Grey Lynn Park Festival!); it has the Civic, which is second only to Radio City Music Hall on the Grand Deco Palace Theatre scale... I could go on. It's a lovely place to live. Seriously. As we've discussed before privately, I love Dunedin. I think both it and Wellington get shafted in surveys like these. I'd live in either of the other two cities like a shot. And Auckland has its faults - but 'appalling'? No way! You don't know how good we have it down here. Danielle, of the 'can't we all just get along?' school ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:57:38 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: Dead fish aren't much fun You don't have that Scottish thing where Jameses are so numerous that they tend to be known by their middle names - frinstance my mate Al, whose real name is James Alexander... I've got a feeling this might be true of Michael Stipe, though I've no idea why... Cheers Matt >From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) >and why just women? In my own giant Irish-Catholic (originally) family, >there are Jameses, Jays, Jims, Jimmys, Hamishes, and Seamuses. Which is why >you'll occasionally catch me answering to Jamie. > >James a.k.a. "Emperor of Night, Known in some parts of the world as >Hierophant of The Highway Thieves", apparently > >PS - ye ghods! The Quail returns! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay in touch better and keep protected online with MSNs NEW all-in-one Premium Services. Find out more here. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:04:24 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: I swore I'd never do this >I am unsubscribing from the list today. Goodby messages always seemed a >little tacky to me - but now that I'm in the situation I want to do it. I >want to take a moment to thank a few people who have been extra nice to me >over the past 10 years (it's 10 years to the month since I signed on.) dammit. Hope this isn't a permanent thing. This list without B.C. is gonna be like country music without Johnny Cash. Miles said: >Goodness. I've been on this list since '93 or '94, and to me, Bayard and >woj are The Ones Who Have Always Been Here. When I think of Fegmaniax, >they're the first people who come to mind. So this is a sad day. for me too - he was a long-standing Feg before I ever made it here, and I've been here for a while, if not more than that. All the best to you bayard - hope you don't disappear from sight completely 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, 2 Mar 2004 06:47:22 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: 2 weeks until D-Day I'm heading out for vacation next week, and two weeks from today (or 13 days from now, his time, most likely) I'll get to meet up with the most southerly located of Fegs, James Dignan. If there are any other NZ Robyn fans who would like to meet up, just post me directly to work out details. I'll be on the east coast of Australia from 3/17-24 (Cairns, Port Douglas, and Sydney), so the same thing goes there. I'd mention buying you a drink, but would hate to get to Sydney only to be met by the 80 thirsty members of the "Robin Hillcock" fan club. Hope to see you there, Marc (dumb band name--the Thirsty Members) If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now. Jack Handy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:43:06 -0800 From: "Palle Hoffstein" Subject: Re: Top 10 cities > >Interestingly, no UK or US city makes the top 10 for QoL: > >http://tinyurl.com/2duot > > It's wierd, to see my home town (Vancouver BC, born and raised) listed as the third best city in the world to live in. I can't wrap my head around it. Yeah, its clean, safe, and very green for a city. Being next to ocean and mountains, islands and forests is nice, and something I'm sure we take for granted. On the other hand we have the most expensive rent and real estate in Canada. And we are a cultural wasteland, with the worst museums and art galleries, and the lamest cultural festivals on the planet. It rains a hell of a lot. We've pretty much torn all our old buildings down, with nothing to replace them but glass monsters. Our Universities are hardly prestigious. Our hospitals are in dire straights, with long waiting lists and strikes every few years. Most cool bands skip us for Seattle. We lead the nation in auto theft. Our classrooms are the most crowded in the country. Just what do they base these things on? It's true that this is the only Canadian city that suits me (maybe nearby Victoria too) but there has to be a city outside of Switzerland that's better than here. When I travel, the thing that makes me remember my home town fondest is our restaurants. We have more restaurants per person than anywhere else, we eat out way more than anyone else, and pretty much any world cuisine is available. It would be what I would miss the most if I moved. I doubt it's on their criteria for livible cities, though. I often seem to really like some of the most maligned cities. LA and Atlanta always score low, and they're two cities that I love, though I guess living there and visiting are very different experiences. Palle ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:06:19 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Tenor guitar (slight return) The now-dominant Quail person says: >>Well, actually, Bayard and I have been locked in an off-list Internet >>squabble for the better part of a year. He contends that the best ad >>campaign in history was "Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce >>cheesepickles onions on a sesame seed bun." I say it's "Have another >>fluffernutter peanut butter sandwich please." This evokes (loosely) the moment this weekend when my older daughter (not quite three) provided me with a pretty great band name. She has this little plastic slinky that's shaped like a star instead of the traditional circle, and she had laid it neatly on top of a book, which she then held up like a serving tray. She leaned over and kind of licked the slinky, and then looked up at me and said, "Daddy! Delicious Meat Star!" Later in the day, my friend Amery modified it to the two word version, Delicious Meatstar, and later supplied the album title: No Skunks for You. No, I'm not sure what type of music this is going to be... a wee bit 'sperimental, one imagines. Saw Neko Case at the Derby this weekend, too. Actually it was kind of a three-way show featuring singer/songwriters from Bloodshot--- Neko, Kelly Hogan, and Carolyn Mark (the "other Corn Sister"), with minimal backing from Rauhouse on pedal/lap steel and banjo, and another gent on lead guitar inna slightly-twangier Chet Atkins stylee. Countrier than hell and featuring a lot of traditional or old-school country covers, it was totally not what I'd expected-- they only did one song that's ever been on a Case record, and even that one was a cover-- but it was great. Gorgeous three-part harmonies, especially impressive since the overall feel was very casual and thrown-together, with lots of funny banter from all three women. Really glad to have seen the show. Vis a vis recent questions regarding Neko and her tenor guitar(s)... she had two at this show, a large one and a small one. There was also a six-string which was at one point or another played by each of the singers, predominantly Carolyn but once by Neko, so she's not confined to the tenors anymore, although, yeah, reeeeallly small hands, so I can see why she favors them. I can confirm that she does use the folkie-cheater tuning on at least the larger tenor (like a six-string minus the bass strings) but couldn't tell what was up with the smaller one; it may have used the real tenor tuning, but I doubt it. Couldn't even begin to tell you what happened to her left incisor, but it was gone daddy gone... Goodbye to Mr. Bayard... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:22:25 -0800 From: "Palle Hoffstein" Subject: Re: Tenor guitar (slight return) > > Vis a vis recent questions regarding Neko and her tenor guitar(s)... she had two at this show, a large one and a small one. There was also a six-string which was at one point or another played by each of the singers, predominantly Carolyn but once by Neko, so she's not confined to the tenors anymore, although, yeah, reeeeallly small hands, so I can see why she favors them. I can confirm that she does use the folkie-cheater tuning on at least the larger tenor (like a six-string minus the bass strings) but couldn't tell what was up with the smaller one; it may have used the real tenor tuning, but I doubt it. I use the "cheater" tuning on tenor guitars myself. The quality of sound from my fingers not having to relearn what to do outweights the quality of sound from the proper tuning. In fact, I'm now guilty of playing tenor banjo the same way. For me, being drunk and able to pick up any instrument and bash away any song I know is worth the "cheating." I love tenor guitars myself, just for the sound. A good tenor guitar is loud, clear and gloriously mid-rangey. Palle ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:08:16 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: New Jersey in the house On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:47:27 -0800, "Eb" said: > meeting with a certain voluptuous Feglist member. ;) We have those? > The next band was the Swords Project, who were another plus over the > Hollywood show because I'd rather see them than John Vanderslice (the > Wrens' opening act in Hollywood). I like Swords Project okay - but too bad you couldnt' send Vanderslice (whom I like) up to Minneapolis for the show I'm seeing in two weeks - there are two opening acts I haven't heard of instead... During the Swords Project's set, I started seeing a few of the Wrens > around. One of them was setting up a merchandise table in a back > room, so I went over to say hello. I feel a bit "righteous" in my > Wrens fandom, you see, because I evangelized to *everyone* about how > incredible their 1996 album Secaucus was, and few paid any attention > to me. Preach it, brother! Me too, me too... It sucks but somehow I've never seen the Wrens live. I think they played here once about two weeks before I heard of them (seriously), and then they played another show here on a day I had to be out of town... Anyway, they're playing Chicago and Minneapolis, and I'm tempted to go to Chicago as well. (Mpls. is a further drive, but my sister lives there so no worries about hotels or anything. BTW: any Fegs going to the Mpls. Wrens show, let me know - maybe we can meet up.) > band has a tendency of just "cruise" on a certain pleasing chord > combination or hook for measures and measures, and they overdo it a > bit on The Meadowlands. True...I think Meadowlands is an excellent album, but it's a grower. The first few times I'd heard it, I was pretty disappointed. I'd heard demo versions of several tracks, some going back *years*, and in a lot of cases, I initially preferred the older versions. I think, though, that they were going for a particular depressed, resigned mood on this album - and that feel develops over multiple listens. I like the record as a whole a lot better now than I did when I first heard it. > *hitting* the guitar as much as strumming it. And he had an exciting > way of adding little bursts of partial chords to add quirky > dissonance to the music. The Wrens' use of dissonance is one of their most distinctive features - nobody else puts chords together like those guys. - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Solipsism is its own reward :: :: --Crow T. Robot ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:22:08 -0600 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Wonder Falls Did we discuss the fact that Andy Partridge wrote the theme for the new Fox show "Wonder Falls" yet? (There's a "music video" up on the official Fox website: http://www.fox.com/wonderfalls/ ) Sumi ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:22:53 -0500 From: fingerpuppets Subject: attn: nyc fegs anyone in and around manhattan with nothing to do tonight? if so, i suggest heading over to tonic (117 norfolk, just above delancy at the williamsburg bridge) at 8pm to see barbez, the dresden dolls and the force of nature which is sleepytime gorilla museum. last night, it was faun fables, the dresden dolls and sleepytime. we were exhausted and left before sleepytime came on but faun fables (dawn mccarthy, ex-vardo, and nils frykdahl from sleepytime) were amazing and the dresden dolls blew the roof off the place, punctuating their set with a cover neutral milk hotel's "two-headed boy" (tom clarks need not apply). from the tonic site: Barbez: Gorgeous Old world Russian cabaret collides with Schnittke and the Residents in this Brooklyn-based punk chamber ensemble. With Ksenia Vidyaykina(vocals), Dan Kaufman (guitar), Danny Tunick (marimba, vibraphone), Pamelia Kurstin (theremin), Dan Coates(bass, palm pilot), and Shahzad Ismaily (drums). Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: "It's beautiful and haunting. At moments, it's downright terrifying... it felt like an auditory orgasm (or Armageddon, depending on the strength of your constitution)." - San Francisco Bay Guardian. Traveling with an array of home-made instruments & industrial waste percussion, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum presents a highly orchestrated yet visceral set of musical exhibits. Including Carla Kihlstedt of Tonic faves Tin Hat Trio and Charming Hostess. the dresden dolls are something akin to a punk kurt weill. electric piano, drums and one holy racket. i'll probably get there around 8 if anyone decides to come on by. woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:32:14 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Wonder Falls >Did we discuss the fact that Andy Partridge wrote the theme for the new >Fox show "Wonder Falls" yet? > >(There's a "music video" up on the official Fox website: http://www.fox.com/wonderfalls/ ) Is that the "Hide Away" song which you hear in the commercials? If so, I will just say "AHA!" because that song TOTALLY hooked me, which is really strange because you're only hearing 30 seconds of it. I had the damn thing in my head for a whole day! If it's a Partridge product, no wonder! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:37:08 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Roberta Cowan Subject: Re: SGM (was attn: nyc fegs) I saw Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at last year's NEARFest. They played the opening slot Sunday morning and pretty much blew everybody away. Keep in mind the audience consisted mostly of slightly hungover proggies approaching middle age. ;-) Their albums are intense and abrasive though engaging. Live they are amazing. Highly recommended. Roberta From Woj: anyone in and around manhattan with nothing to do tonight? if so, i suggest heading over to tonic (117 norfolk, just above delancy at the williamsburg bridge) at 8pm to see barbez, the dresden dolls and the force of nature which is sleepytime gorilla museum. last night, it was faun fables, the dresden dolls and sleepytime. we were exhausted and left before sleepytime came on but faun fables (dawn mccarthy, ex-vardo, and nils frykdahl from sleepytime) were amazing and the dresden dolls blew the roof off the place, punctuating their set with a cover neutral milk hotel's "two-headed boy" (tom clarks need not apply). from the tonic site: Barbez: Gorgeous Old world Russian cabaret collides with Schnittke and the Residents in this Brooklyn-based punk chamber ensemble. With Ksenia Vidyaykina(vocals), Dan Kaufman (guitar), Danny Tunick (marimba, vibraphone), Pamelia Kurstin (theremin), Dan Coates(bass, palm pilot), and Shahzad Ismaily (drums). Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: "It's beautiful and haunting. At moments, it's downright terrifying... it felt like an auditory orgasm (or Armageddon, depending on the strength of your constitution)." - San Francisco Bay Guardian. Traveling with an array of home-made instruments & industrial waste percussion, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum presents a highly orchestrated yet visceral set of musical exhibits. Including Carla Kihlstedt of Tonic faves Tin Hat Trio and Charming Hostess. the dresden dolls are something akin to a punk kurt weill. electric piano, drums and one holy racket. i'll probably get there around 8 if anyone decides to come on by. woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:41:06 -0600 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: Wonder Falls I believe so. I think that the song can already be downloaded somewhere. . . Yes -- it's up at itunes and it's called "I wonder why the Wonder Falls". Sumi >>> Eb 03/02/04 02:32PM >>> >Did we discuss the fact that Andy Partridge wrote the theme for the new >Fox show "Wonder Falls" yet? > >(There's a "music video" up on the official Fox website: http://www.fox.com/wonderfalls/ ) Is that the "Hide Away" song which you hear in the commercials? If so, I will just say "AHA!" because that song TOTALLY hooked me, which is really strange because you're only hearing 30 seconds of it. I had the damn thing in my head for a whole day! If it's a Partridge product, no wonder! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:01:50 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Tenor guitar (slight return) >Actually it was kind of a three-way show featuring >singer/songwriters from Bloodshot--- Neko, Kelly Hogan, and Carolyn >Mark (the "other Corn Sister"), with minimal backing from Rauhouse >on pedal/lap steel and banjo, and another gent on lead guitar inna >slightly-twangier Chet Atkins stylee. I can tell you were just SO happy to fit the words "Neko" and "three-way" into the same sentence. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:35:49 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: reap Marge Schott, former owner of the Cincinnati Reds, Nazi paraphernalia enthusiast. http://msn.espn.go.com/classic/obit/s/2004/0302/1749114.html ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:45:32 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Wonder Falls > >(There's a "music video" up on the official Fox website: > http://www.fox.com/wonderfalls/ ) > > Is that the "Hide Away" song which you hear in the commercials? > > If so, I will just say "AHA!" because that song TOTALLY hooked me, > which is really strange because you're only hearing 30 seconds of it. > I had the damn thing in my head for a whole day! If it's a Partridge > product, no wonder! Some confusion here. The "Hide Away" song you hear when you first enter the site (and presumably in the commercial) is The Polyphonic Spree's "Have a Day". If you click "Watch The Music Video!" you hear AP's tune. +brian in New Orleans ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:08:27 -0800 From: Eb Subject: RE: Wonder Falls >Some confusion here. The "Hide Away" song you hear when you first enter the >site (and presumably in the commercial) is The Polyphonic Spree's "Have a >Day". Ohhhhhhhhhh. Damn. I really need to hear that album. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:26:59 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Wow http://www.salon.com/mwt/wire/2004/03/02/child/index.html March 2, 2004 | PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Luz Cuevas took one look at the dimpled, dark-haired little girl at a birthday party and instantly knew two things: She was watching her own daughter -- presumed killed in a 1997 fire -- and she needed a way to prove it. So Cuevas pretended the 6-year-old girl had gum in her hair, removed five strands from the child's head, folded them in a napkin and placed them in a plastic bag. "Because of TV, I knew they needed hair for the DNA," Cuevas said Tuesday. The DNA tests confirmed a mother's intuition. The girl was Cuevas' only daughter, Delimar Vera -- the girl everyone else believed had perished in a house fire when she was only 10 days old. Investigators believe a family acquaintance stole the baby from her crib, set the fire to cover the crime and raised the little girl as her own. Carolyn Correa, 41, of Willingboro, N.J., was wanted Tuesday on charges of arson and kidnapping. The little girl has been taken into state custody in New Jersey. It was not immediately clear when she would be reunited with her mother. Fire officials believed the 1997 blaze at Cuevas' Philadelphia home was sparked by a home-rigged extension cord connected to a space heater. The fire was put out in 10 minutes, but Delimar's room was gutted, and investigators concluded that the infant's body must have been consumed by the intense heat and flames. But Cuevas said several things made her suspicious. "I went inside the room and looked in the crib and she wasn't there," Cuevas said, adding that the window was inexplicably open though it was a cold winter evening. Police and fire officials that night told the hysterical mother that "maybe it was my nerves." Cuevas said she was also suspicious because Correa had announced that she was pregnant during a visit shortly after Delimar's birth. According to Cuevas, Correa abruptly ceased contact after the blaze. Cuevas, who speaks in halting English, said she instantly recognized the child as her daughter at the Jan. 24 birthday party. It was unclear what brought the girl, who was being called Aliyah, and her biological mother to the same party. "When I see her, I saw that she was my daughter," said Cuevas, 31. "I want to hug her. I want to run with her." She sought help from state Rep. Angel Cruz, who represents the poor, largely Hispanic neighborhood where Cuevas lives. Cruz said he was skeptical at first but "something inside" told him that there could be something to the bizarre claim. He called police, who contacted Correa for a DNA test that ultimately proved Cuevas right. "It's a mother's way. It's motherly intuition," the lawmaker said. Cuevas and Delimar's father, Pedro Vera, 39, had a baby boy after Delimar's disappearance but broke up under the strain of losing their daughter. "Right now I want to see my daughter," Pedro Vera said. "I am so happy. I just want to see my daughter." It will be up to a Family Court judge to determine where the little girl will live. Neighbors who used garden hoses and fire extinguishers in a futile attempt to help Cuevas reach her newborn on the night of the fire reacted to the news with joy and anger. Jose Rosario, a former next-door neighbor, said he took a drink to celebrate. "I was happy she was alive," said Rosario, who recalled grabbing a fire extinguisher and desperately trying to enter the window where Delimar was supposed to have been, only to be repelled by the intense flames. "Somebody could have got hurt trying to save someone who wasn't in there," Rosario said. "The way she hurt those people, she should be put away in a crazy house." ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #64 *******************************