From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #67 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, March 4 2004 Volume 13 : Number 067 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: somebody on fegmaniax probably has a Bagle variant! [Ken Weingold ] trust me [Jill Brand ] hermaphroditos is my name [Miles Goosens ] Dork news [Eb ] Re: hermaphroditos is my name [Jeff Dwarf ] wow! Bagel stranglers! [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: hermaphroditos is my name [Miles Goosens ] Re: wow! Bagel stranglers! [Mike Swedene ] Re: More Mac digital advice needed (NR) [Mike Swedene ] Robyn at Club Congress ["Marc Holden" ] RE: Hello Portland! ["Matt Sewell" ] God's got a sick sense of humor [Jeff Dwarf ] Wow/Babysnatching, HMR etc. ["ross taylor" ] Re: somebody on fegmaniax probably has a Bagle variant! ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: Recent discoveries... ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #66 [Michael R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:31:39 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: somebody on fegmaniax probably has a Bagle variant! On Wed, Mar 3, 2004, Eb wrote: > Would you believe I (very mildly) cut my palm about two weeks ago, > while carelessly cutting a bagel? Heh. Eb, you silly man, rest the bagel on a counter with your hand over it, and cut downward. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:38:47 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: somebody on fegmaniax probably has a Bagle variant! > > Would you believe I (very mildly) cut my palm about two weeks ago, >> while carelessly cutting a bagel? Heh. > >Eb, you silly man, rest the bagel on a counter with your hand over it, >and cut downward. I usually do...like I said, I was being careless. I think I may have been in a hurry, because I was trying to grab a bagel during a short commercial break. ;) Weird, though...I can still see the cut. It's healed, but the outer skin hasn't fully closed. I could post a picture, but it wouldn't NEARLY live up to my usual body-gore standards, so I should abstain. My right heel is still pretty grisly with running abrasions. Maybe I'll post that instead. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:49:20 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Oh goldurn what can I do? Ross T: >>And finally got the new live Television. Sounds great, I don't mind the >>"heavier" than usual guitars, but do think the performance on "The Blow-Up" >>is much better. But at least the 1st disk of tBU has bad bootleg sound >>quality; maybe 2nd disk some better. Sounded the same to me. And the track listing still mistitles "Fire Engine" as "The Blow-Up", while the liner notes still get it right. Weird. >>Proof that picking up a guitar & playing an earworm won't make it go >>away: the riff from "Little Black Egg" by the Nightcrawlers Word. - -Rex, who adds a chord to his version on the chorus because that D just damn well should be there... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:52:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: trust me There is no question in my mind that the real mother of that kidnapped child is far better off knowing that her child is alive regardless of all the realizations of heinous acts (arson, kidnapping) committed by a relative she has to acknowledge. If you know anyone who has lost a child, you know that the overwhelming grief turns to a daily ache that never leaves. The pretend mom, having committed at least three criminal acts, should not be raising anyone. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:08:12 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: hermaphroditos is my name Manly man sports and wussy home improvement/makeover shows, all in one handy post. Jeff Dwarf wrote: >Marge Schott, former owner of the Cincinnati Reds, Nazi >paraphernalia enthusiast. I think you can learn everything you need to know about Carl Lindner's Reds regime from this: his ownership has actually made me nostalgic for Nazi-sympathizing, racial-epithet-using, at times needlessly parsimonious, dog-inflicting, besotted Marge. She actually spent money on the team a time or two (see those mid-'90s payroll numbers), she could be goofily exuberant, and she really did love the Reds. I don't think you can say any of those things about the Banana King. Ideally, your favorite team would be owned by neither of these people, but if I have to pick the lesser of ownership evils, I'll take Marge any day. On the other hand, I do worry that Lindner is going to add a line to his ownership resume that Marge's also sported: "Hired Pete Rose as manager." Rex: >Apparently, and also possibly of interest, Bob Mould wrote the theme song to >the TLC show "In a Fix". Haven't caught this one yet... Miles? Nope. I still watch only TRADING SPACES and CHANGING ROOMS (though the wife also sticks with BBC America for HOME INVADERS), which is more than big enough dose of home improvement TV. Heck, even Theresa Strasser's time at WHILE YOU WERE OUT wasn't enough to make me a regular viewer. On the BBC America/reality show front, I see in my e-mail that the original WHAT NOT TO WEAR starts airing its third series on BBC America next Tuesday. The U.S. version (which airs on TLC) has closed the quality gap a lot in its second season by dumping abrasive idiot Wayne Scot Lukas for Clinton Kelly, who's more pleasant in every respect, but it's still not a patch on the original. BUFFY's demise allowed me to make Tuesday nights completely TV-free, but for Trinny and Susannah, I'll schedule a relapse for the next 6-8 weeks. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:15:56 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Dork news 'Firefly' Gets Its Feature Wings By Brian Ford Sullivan CHICAGO (thefutoncritic.com) -- Universal Pictures has greenlighted "Serenity," a feature film based on the short-lived FOX series "Firefly." Universal snagged the feature rights to "Firefly" from 20th Century Fox Television back in September. Production on the mid-eight figure-budgeted projected is set to begin in June for a 2005 release date. Joss Whedon, the show's creator and executive producer, is on board to write and direct the project, which will see all nine original cast members - Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Morena Baccarin, Jewel Staite, Adam Baldwin, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass and Alan Tudyk - reprising their roles. Whedon told Daily Variety the title shift is designed to give the franchise some distance from the TV version. "It was important that people understand that the movie isn't the series," he said. "The movie is bigger, more epic than anything you can do in a series." He also added he went out of his way to make sure the script will be accessible to audiences who never tuned into "Firefly." "You're not going to bring people into a movie if you're explaining all the time what happened before," Whedon added. Details about "Serenity" weren't released however Whedon specified the feature is set about six months after the TV show left off. Barry Mendel ("Unbreakable," "The Sixth Sense"), Alissa Tager and Mutant Enemy's Chris Buchanan are executive producing the project in addition to Whedon. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:18:34 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: hermaphroditos is my name Miles Goosens wrote: > Manly man sports and wussy home improvement/makeover > shows, all in one handy post. > > Jeff Dwarf wrote: > >Marge Schott, former owner of the Cincinnati Reds, Nazi > >paraphernalia enthusiast. > > I think you can learn everything you need to know about > Carl Lindner's Reds regime from this: his ownership has > actually made me nostalgic for Nazi-sympathizing, > racial-epithet-using, at times needlessly parsimonious, > dog-inflicting, besotted Marge. She actually spent money > on the team a time or two (see those mid-'90s payroll > numbers), she could be goofily exuberant, and she really > did love the Reds. I don't think you can say any of those > things about the Banana King. Ideally, your favorite team > would be owned by neither of these people, but if I have > to pick the lesser of ownership evils, I'll take Marge > any day. > > On the other hand, I do worry that Lindner is going to > add a line to his ownership resume that Marge's also > sported: > > "Hired Pete Rose as manager." > > Did you post this on baseballprimer.com yesterday? > Rex: > >Apparently, and also possibly of interest, Bob Mould > wrote the theme song to > >the TLC show "In a Fix". Haven't caught this one yet... > Miles? > > Nope. I still watch only TRADING SPACES and CHANGING > ROOMS (though the wife also sticks with BBC America for > HOME INVADERS), which is more than big enough dose of > home improvement TV. Heck, even Theresa Strasser's time > at WHILE YOU WERE OUT wasn't enough to make me a regular > viewer. > > On the BBC America/reality show front, I see in my e-mail > that the original WHAT NOT TO WEAR starts airing its > third series on BBC America next Tuesday. The U.S. > version (which airs on TLC) has closed the quality gap a > lot in its second season by dumping abrasive idiot Wayne > Scot Lukas for Clinton Kelly, who's more pleasant in > every respect, but it's still not a patch on the > original. BUFFY's demise allowed me to make Tuesday > nights completely TV-free, but for Trinny and Susannah, > I'll schedule a relapse for the next 6-8 weeks. > > later, > > Miles ===== "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: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:45:24 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: wow! Bagel stranglers! >'Allo, Feggy-types. > >Anyone else getting spammed lately with address that are suspiciously >feggilicious? I've just today noticed these two come through: no, but I did get a bounce message for a message I didn't send... someone's mail address list has been raided, I think. >I've received e-mails *spoofed* as if from PayPal - but not actually from >it. me too, and also - sneakily and annoyingly, spoofed as if to look as if they're from my ISP. Thankfully, surf4nix is now run from elsewhere, so theree is no such thing as "accounts@surf4nix.com" or the like. The usual way to tell that these are false is that if service X emails you, the message might start "We need to talk to you...". If they're scams, they almost always start "The people at X wish to talk to you..." or similar. >> Then I found Hugh Cornwell's "Hi Fi" on eMusic (they list it as a self >> titled album). I always liked The Stranglers when they were played on >> the radio, but never quite got around to picking up any of their stuff. >> Anyway, this came out in 2001 and includes live acoustic versions of >> "Golden Brown" and "Always The Sun" as the last tracks. Good stuff. > >You know, I have only ever owned Dreamtime by The Stranglers and I just >loved it when I was younger. I haven't listened to it in ages, but I >wouldn't be surprised to find I had put it on my "Top 40 of the 80s" list >we did here a few months back. I fell for the song "Skin deep" when I was jyounger and picked up Aural Sculpture on the strength of it, which I still think is a goody. Bought several of their others on the strength of it, too, the most underrated of which is probably "Feline". And of course one or two of their early tracks are classics, even though - objectively - they're probably not good, if you know what I mean. I think it was the attemptted punk aesthetic tied in with the bubbly keyboards - sort of like if punk had grown out of the Doors rather than the Velvets. It made them memorably different, rather that brilliant. And can anyone hear the first three bass notes of "Peaches" without having it on the brain all day? as for "wow", one thing no-one has mentioned... how strong is the bond of motherhood? This woman could recognise her child based on the memory of a ten-day-old's smile. Now that really is a "wow!" 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: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:49:10 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: hermaphroditos is my name At 03:18 PM 3/3/2004 -0800, Jeff Dwarf wrote: >Did you post this on baseballprimer.com yesterday? Sure did. My cover's blown now, as if responding to Repoz' R. Stevie Moore namedrop didn't give it away. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:26:28 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: somebody on fegmaniax probably has a Bagle variant! At 01:24 PM 3/3/2004 -0800, Eb wrote: >This mother/child thread has gotta be one of the most unlikely debates >I've seen on this list. Wait until you see the flat/spheroid Earth argument that's coming up.* Only evil sadistic pro-authoritarianism fuckwits think it's round, by the way. Also, there's absolutely no difference between Coke and 7-Up. And not much between Glocks and those Springfield Armory XDs either. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson * - knowing us, we've already had this discussion at some point. PS: So, those recent messages from Quail were really just a virus? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:43:14 -0600 From: steve Subject: More Mac digital advice needed (NR) The FLAC thing was just too simple. This time I'm looking for advice on converting AVI files to VCD or DVD and then burning them. GUI based would be wonderful. OS X.3.2 / Superdrive - - Steve __________ To be sure, the fatuous hypocrisy of the Bush case for war is no reason to let Saddam Hussein drop a nuclear bomb on your head. Iraq may be an imminent menace to the United States even though George W. Bush says it is. You would think that if honest and persuasive arguments were available, the administration would offer them. But maybe not. - Michael Kinsley ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:48:21 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: wow! Bagel stranglers! my company i work for, at least the IT dept says it is a new virus that effects mail servers sending out information requests for user names and passwords. The attachment is the dirty part of the email. thank god I have a mac :0) mike - --- James Dignan wrote: > >'Allo, Feggy-types. > > > >Anyone else getting spammed lately with address > that are suspiciously > >feggilicious? I've just today noticed these two > come through: > > no, but I did get a bounce message for a message I > didn't send... someone's > mail address list has been raided, I think. > > >I've received e-mails *spoofed* as if from PayPal - > but not actually from > >it. > > me too, and also - sneakily and annoyingly, spoofed > as if to look as if > they're from my ISP. Thankfully, surf4nix is now run > from elsewhere, so > theree is no such thing as "accounts@surf4nix.com" > or the like. > > The usual way to tell that these are false is that > if service X emails you, > the message might start "We need to talk to you...". > If they're scams, they > almost always start "The people at X wish to talk to > you..." or similar. > > >> Then I found Hugh Cornwell's "Hi Fi" on eMusic > (they list it as a self > >> titled album). I always liked The Stranglers > when they were played on > >> the radio, but never quite got around to picking > up any of their stuff. > >> Anyway, this came out in 2001 and includes live > acoustic versions of > >> "Golden Brown" and "Always The Sun" as the last > tracks. Good stuff. > > > >You know, I have only ever owned Dreamtime by The > Stranglers and I just > >loved it when I was younger. I haven't listened to > it in ages, but I > >wouldn't be surprised to find I had put it on my > "Top 40 of the 80s" list > >we did here a few months back. > > I fell for the song "Skin deep" when I was jyounger > and picked up Aural > Sculpture on the strength of it, which I still think > is a goody. Bought > several of their others on the strength of it, too, > the most underrated of > which is probably "Feline". And of course one or two > of their early tracks > are classics, even though - objectively - they're > probably not good, if you > know what I mean. I think it was the attemptted punk > aesthetic tied in with > the bubbly keyboards - sort of like if punk had > grown out of the Doors > rather than the Velvets. It made them memorably > different, rather that > brilliant. And can anyone hear the first three bass > notes of "Peaches" > without having it on the brain all day? > > as for "wow", one thing no-one has mentioned... how > strong is the bond of > motherhood? This woman could recognise her child > based on the memory of a > ten-day-old's smile. Now that really is a "wow!" > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ===== - --------------------------------------------- Rebuilding my websight: http://www34.brinkster.com/bflomidy/ _____________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:53:25 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: More Mac digital advice needed (NR) iVCD http://www.mireth.com/pub/ivme.html it works quite nicely, it is a beast to run on a G4 and the first few outputs have a "license not signed" type message across the screen. that is a nice gui interfaced one. mike other os x video stuff from apple's site: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/ - --- steve wrote: > The FLAC thing was just too simple. > > This time I'm looking for advice on converting AVI > files to VCD or DVD > and then burning them. GUI based would be > wonderful. > > OS X.3.2 / Superdrive > > > > > - Steve > __________ > To be sure, the fatuous hypocrisy of the Bush case > for war is no reason > to let Saddam Hussein drop a nuclear bomb on your > head. Iraq may be an > imminent menace to the United States even though > George W. Bush says it > is. You would think that if honest and persuasive > arguments were > available, the administration would offer them. But > maybe not. - > Michael Kinsley ===== - --------------------------------------------- Rebuilding my websight: http://www34.brinkster.com/bflomidy/ _____________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:02:18 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: More Mac digital advice needed (NR) On Mar 3, 2004, at 9:43 PM, steve wrote: > This time I'm looking for advice on converting AVI files to VCD or DVD > and then burning them. GUI based would be wonderful. Toast 6 Titanium has a Universal Video Converter that will turn any video file that Quicktime can recognize into a video disc. Of course, there are so many flavors of AVI (what with the DivX codec constantly changing and evolving) that you'd have to make sure Quicktime could handle it first. Hmmm, I just used Quicktime Pro 6.5 to open an AVI file compressed with DivX 5.0 I can now export it as an MPEG2 file, which is DVD ready. I'm sure there must be some free or shareware programs available from a search at www.VersionTracker.com - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:45:16 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: wow! Bagel stranglers! On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, James Dignan wrote: > as for "wow", one thing no-one has mentioned... how strong is the bond > of motherhood? This woman could recognise her child based on the memory > of a ten-day-old's smile. Now that really is a "wow!" ...or a distinctive birthmark. ...or a peculiarly shaped nose. ...or about a million things. I can see unmistakable family resemblance in people that think they look nothing like their siblings. This may come from having no family resemblance of my own and being fascinated by the phenomenon... or not. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:33:58 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Robyn at Club Congress The Club Congress web site finally updated and now includes this information: friday March 26 - MIchele Noach Art Opening paints so fun, so real, you'll wish you were 2-D with robyn hitchcock, howe gelb, the zsa zsa lite Tickets : $priceless (tba) opening in the lobby- 7pm; show starts in the club at 9. http://www.hotcong.com/club/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 11:38:01 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: Hello Portland! No, no... nononono... not in Portland - they've only just allowed marriage outside the family there... Unless you mean Portland Oregon rather than Portland Dorset? Cheers Matt >From: Tom Clark >Reply-To: Tom Clark >To: Where The Magpie Struts >Subject: Hello Portland! >Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:53:31 -0800 > >Looks like the city of bridges just started marrying same-sex couples. > >Huzzah! >-tc - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a free connection, half-price modem and one month FREE, when you sign up for BT Broadband today! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:50:55 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: God's got a sick sense of humor ROME, Ga. -- Tickets at one movie theater screening Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" are being deemed decidedly unholy. The number 666, which many Christians recognize as the "mark of the beast," is appearing on movie tickets for Gibson's film at a Georgia theater, drawing complaints from some moviegoers. The machine that prints tickets assigned the number 666 as a prefix on all the tickets for the film, said Gary Smith, owner of the Movies at Berry Square in northwest Georgia. The 666 begins a series of numbers that are listed below the name of the movie, the date, time and price. "It's from our computer and it's absolutely a coincidence," Smith said. "It has nothing to do with the film company or any vendor. It's completely in our computer." In the Bible, the book of Revelation says 666 is the "number of the beast," usually interpreted as Satan or the Antichrist. Several patrons have made comments about the numbers, and one person who was uncomfortable having 666 on her ticket asked for a pass to be substituted for a ticket. "A lot of people have asked what the numbers mean, some said it seemed odd, some said it was inappropriate," said theater employee Erica Diaz. The movie, which opened Wednesday, is a bloody depiction of Christ's final hours and crucifixion. ===== "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: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:17:13 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: Wow/Babysnatching, HMR etc. Stewart-- >I have to say that I don't think that Sam's years with HMR were their best ones. He could lay down a jungle beat on tomtoms, but that's about all. I'm a big fan of the Stampfel/Weber/Reisch lineup. Oh yes, Serpent Power aren't anywhere near as exciting as HMR. SP is a slightly odd, hippiesh jazzy folk rock item. HMR are downright weird. - --- My 2 cents on the baby thread-- My 1st reaction was much the same as JeFFrey's, but I later decided that was colored by my memory of other horrible custody cases (anyone remember how the "Baby M" surrogate mother case finally came out? I seem to recall it as a clash of two Great American Principles: the Sanctity of Motherhood vs. the Sanctity of a Contract. Can you say "Child buying" ?) Surely the kidnapper, if guilty, must be punished. We discourage kidnapping. But more important, it seems quite possible she's still a danger to the child & other people. One can only hope for some little whiff of King Solomon. But whatever, it will surely be hell for the child. See also: "The Kids" by Lou Reed. My more abstract interest is this: a *Lot* hangs on that DNA test. First, the accuser has mentioned some deception in gathering her evidence, which may complicate things. But also, the accuser has great psychological motivation to find her lost baby. In addition to stealing babies, people have been "finding" lost babies since ancient times. "Alas, we the King and Queen have no heir. But we had a babe our enemies stole and abandoned on a hilltop. Now, wonderously, our wise man assures us that this young lad is he!" Having been reading about the "science" of fingerprints (not to mention lie detectors) I can't help wonder how accurate the reading & interpreting of DNA is in the workaday crime world. Ross Taylor "the little black egg's gonna tell on you" Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:29:04 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: somebody on fegmaniax probably has a Bagle variant! Greg, you and I may disagree on a number of issues, but on the subject of bagels we are of the same mind... presliced bagels indeed... Thankfully flavoured cream cheese (wha...?) has yet to reach the shores of my ken. CHeers Matt >From: >I have no true bagle strain preference but I can't stand flavored cream cheese. >And it really rubs my knob wrong to see so many bagle producers pushing the >precut type. The cut is ALWAYS off and they never fit correctly in the toaster. >Are most of us so physically inept that we can't slice a bagle straight? I think >we should be allowed to slice our own bagles. > > >gSs - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay in touch better and keep protected online with MSNs NEW all-in-one Premium Services. Find out more here. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:54:26 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: Virusmaniax! I really had hoped the Fall song would clear up this question once and for all (the nazis one), but Mr Smith never gets round to explaining who actually does make 'em? Any ideas? Cheers Matt "and the mad kid said 'Gimme the lead, gimme the lead'" >From: "Rex.Broome" > >Bagle variant? Who names the viruses? For that matter, who makes the Nazis? > >-Rex - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay in touch better and keep protected online with MSNs NEW all-in-one Premium Services. Find out more here. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:02:26 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: Recent discoveries... God, I *love* Strawberries! It's an album that's always in the car, though my fave Damned is The Black Album... And thanks for the tip on Serpent Power - sounds like a gap just opened up in my collection! Cheers Matt >From: "ross taylor" > >In *my* recent acquisitions, I got Strawberries by the Damned. Great to hear lots of the >Captain, but somehow doesn't have the spark of his solo work or the earlier Damned. The band >seems more restrained in terms of noise, & he seems more restrained in terms of whimsy. > >Also got the 1967 album by San Francisco band Serpent Power. OK disk, like a much folkier, >quieter, stranger version of pre-Slick J. Airplane. (There's a Country Joe & the Fish >connection). But the drummer happened to be, or became, a very innovative, influential poet: >he's Clark Coolidge! Really a decent drummer too, better chops than playwright Sam Shepard >w/ the Holy Modal Rounders. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you going travelling? Help us to find the 100 best internet cafes in the world. Click here for more details and you could win #250 and a digital camera! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 16:29:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #66 > Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:32:45 -0500 > From: "ross taylor" > Subject: Re: Recent discoveries... > > Sorta back online, & trying to jump in where I can ... > > I love the Stranglers too, but my collection of their stuff is spotty. > My faves are Raven, La Folie & Meninblack. Some of the early songs I > love, like "Something's Gotta Change" and "Get a Grip on Yourself" > (spaceman theme already!), but some, like "Peaches" or "Hanging Around" > kind of drag on. For the later pop stuff, well, I think they did it > better than most people were doing it at the time. "Golden Brown" is a > terrific song. Saw the Stranglers once at Bath Pav - they were great but I didn't feel the need to buy the record. Round here they always had the reputation of being Doors soundalikes, and that definitely came over on stage. I have got the Hugh Cornwell-Robert Williams 'Nosferatu' LP, but that was more for the Beefheart connection than the Stranglers ditto. > Also got "The Immortal Story," the Only Ones collection, to augment my > LPs by them. Totally great stuff. Bizarre to think of them being > buddies w/ Robert Hunter, as the notes say. No mention of the girl > singing with them, which is weird since she adds a nice touch. Mike > Godwin, you know about her? You there? Yes, her name is Koulla Kakoulli, and she is the sister of Harry Kakoulli who used to play bass with Perrett in England's Glory, and apparently later went on to Squeeze. According to http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/indc/what/2000/what0919.html she is also the sister of Perrett's wife Zena Kakoulli. [That's enough Kakoullis - ed.] - - Mike Godwin PS I've just been playing a Demon Records sampler which includes an early version of 'Another Girl Another Planet'. Most of the words and notes are in the same places, but the end result is OK rather than totally mindexpandingly wonderful. So whoever produced the 'real' single has just got a gold star from me. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #67 *******************************