From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #81 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, March 17 2004 Volume 13 : Number 081 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Missed shows (Leica) [Steve Talkowski ] Re: your attention please [Miles Goosens ] humph ["Natalie Jacobs" ] Bittorrent Question (0% RH) [Mike Swedene ] Another Brion Largo show [steve ] Martin Bell/New Zealand/IDG is out of the office. [Martin Bell ] Re: humph [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Missed shows (Leica) ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: humph ["Fortissimo" ] The Scots language and the geography of decent coffee ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: The Scots language and the geography of decent coffee ["Stewart C. Ru] Re: your attention please ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Not sure if anyone else saw this ["Jay Lyall" ] REAP: Boogie Fever ["Jay Lyall" ] Wild Man Fischer (calling Eb?) [Aaron Mandel ] One weerd film [Eb ] Re: One weerd film [Steve Talkowski ] Re: One weerd film [Capuchin ] Re: One weerd film [Tom Clark ] Re: humph [Jon Lewis ] Re: your attention please [Jon Lewis ] Re: One weerd film [Jon Lewis ] Re: One weerd film [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:41:17 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Missed shows (Leica) On Mar 12, 2004, at 7:28 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Steve Talkowski wrote: >> Hardly! (For one, I don't know which camera you have ;) > > It's a Bessa-R, with 15mm f/4.5, 35mm f/1.7, 50mm f/1.5 (beastly > heavy) and 90mm f/3.5. As manual and analogue as it gets. Way cool. I'm curious, are you the least bit intrigued by the digital Bessa? Btw, here are a few more D2 pics I shot yesterday: http://www.leica-camera.com/discus_e/messages/11/53522.html?1079410822 Also, the first of two Quaker spots I directed and animated on started airing last week: http://www.cgnetworks.com/cgfilms/cgfilm.php?story_id=2007 Ok, horn tootin' mode off... - -steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:51:00 -0500 (EST) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: your attention please Jeff: >Will the party responsible for installing the "Humpty Dance" in my head >please remove it now? That was me, many Jeff-(CD/tape)-swaps ago. And it's been stuck in my head for fourteen years running. And furthermore, I'm afraid that the only thing that you can swap it out for is "Doowutchyalike." sometimes I bite, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:25:41 -0800 From: "Natalie Jacobs" Subject: humph >Then I kissed him on the cheek and gave him a sculpture made from an old >gum wrapper - I think it depicted an industrial waste dump, in honor of >the Wrens' home state of New Jersey. What, no ass-grabbing? I'm disappointed... ;) I downloaded that Wrens track that someone was raving about a few weeks ago... the one that's supposed to be their best song ever... I liked it but I thought the style would get a little sickly over the course of a whole album. I missed 'em when they came through here a while back... Oh, I feel a haiku coming on... I missed the Wrens show I don't care all that much, though Why'm I writing this? Meanwhile, in the Antipodes... >"No, it's not..." >"...?..." >"I'm James." >"Dignan." !!!!! A bittersweet moment... James has lost his title of The Feg That No Other Feg Has Met. Who now can replace him?? I met a former feg at a party last week... a New York transplantee named Doug something-or-other, says he freelances for the Village Voice and other publications... his name didn't sound familiar, I guess he was a lurker. Oh, and I was talking to an older lady at the supermarket who was checking out the issue of Magnet with Robyn on the cover... I asked her if she was a fan and she said she had never heard of him... I mentioned that that particular issue of Magnet was devoted to eccentrics, including nutballs like Brian Wilson, etc., but added that "Robyn's not crazy." She said, "Oh, I can see he's not - he's obviously very smart, look at those eyes!" Tee-hee. la la la, n. _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar  get it now! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:31:10 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Bittorrent Question (0% RH) I am trying to seed a show on bittorent. I have created the file and all that jazz but am having difficulty attaching it to the thread. Any help would be appreciated. mike __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:56:44 -0600 From: steve Subject: Another Brion Largo show Maybe some of these will have guests. > I now have the second in a series of 6 shows available for download on > my Embrionic list web page: > > http://www.gregingber.com/embrionic.html > > This one is another show from 1999... the exact date unknown. Tracks > include covers of Crimson and Clover, How Soon is Now, Cold as Ice, as > well as some Brion originals. - - Steve __________ At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that "people are poor because they are lazy." He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public schools. To him, the antitrust watch dog, the FTC, and the SEC were unnecessary hindrances to "free market competition." To him, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was "socialism." - Yoshi Tsurumi, CUNY ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:02:52 +1300 From: Martin Bell Subject: Martin Bell/New Zealand/IDG is out of the office. I will be out of the office starting 15/03/2004 and will not return until 18/03/2004. I will respond to your message when I return. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 04:13:39 -0500 From: "marc.h@cox.net" Subject: NZ wrap-up Hey there-- It was another great day here in Christchurch. James and I got together for some record shopping and walking around in the downtown area. Not too many major finds today, as CDs hereare quite expensive (new single discs go as high as $34.99 NZ--about $24 US). I did find a David Kilgour & the Heavy 8's CD a friend had recommended, and an Australian copy of the Fegmania! LP. After a quick break for some coffee, we looked around a bit more then went for a drive to Lyttelton to look over the harbor. I mentioned that the package tour guide had pointed out the island in the middle of the harbor was used for quarantine purposes. He could not recall the name of the island. James confirmed that he had heard the same. Looking at the map posted here in the computer center, it seems we were looking at Quail Island. It makes sense to me now... Anyway, we headed back to Christchurch to get some dinner. We took an accidental tour through the red-light district, then ate at the Raj Mahal. More beverages were enjoyed and again James held up well to the verbal torrent that was constantly forced upon him. To say the least, it has been a quite enjoyable time here in one of the nicer parts of the world with someone as pleasant as Mr. Dignan. I highly suggest that you alter any vacation plans you make to include a day or two in his area. I'm really looking forward to coming back, seeing the Southern Alps in more detail, and spending more time with our sourthern-most Feg. Got to run now, because I'm keeping other people off the system. Excuse the typos, Marc - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:26:10 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: humph - --On Montag, 15. Mdrz 2004 22:25 Uhr -0800 Natalie Jacobs wrote: > A bittersweet moment... James has lost his title of The Feg That No Other > Feg Has Met. Who now can replace him?? That would be me, I guess. It's possible that I've unwittingly shared a place in time and space with one of you, but not consciously. Hmm, should I put that title in my signature? Cheers, Sebastian - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:10:59 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Missed shows (Leica) Steve Talkowski wrote: > > Way cool. I'm curious, are you the least bit intrigued by the digital > Bessa? Yes, but I really can't afford it. Plus I wouldn't like not having the 15mm viewpoint. And digital's, well, too _clean_. Stewart (buzzin' on home roasted ethiopian) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:06:27 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: humph On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:25:41 -0800, "Natalie Jacobs" said: > I downloaded that Wrens track that someone was raving about a few weeks > ago... the one that's supposed to be their best song ever... I liked it > but > I thought the style would get a little sickly over the course of a whole > album. Which one was that? No Wrens album is stylistically consistent throughout anyway (although _The Meadowlands_ comes close). > A bittersweet moment... James has lost his title of The Feg That No Other > Feg Has Met. Who now can replace him?? Well, there's this: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:02:52 +1300, "Martin Bell" said: > I will be out of the office starting 15/03/2004 and will not return > until > 18/03/2004. Note the address: another NZ feg, and his autoresponder is a Robyn fan! Also, I've met a handful of fegs, but I'd met them before I was on this list. I don't think I've met a feg qua feg, actually. Almost did over Christmas (Rex) but our schedules failed to mesh. And he's on Loudfans now, too. So for all most of you know, *I* may be an autoresponder bot. - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree :: what they are made of, where they come from, or how often :: they should appear. :: --Lemony Snicket ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:09:32 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: The Scots language and the geography of decent coffee Listening to the radio this morning there was an article on the Scots language and how it is disliked by middle-class scots people as they see it as the language of the gutter and think it shouldn't be taught in schools... interestingly, though, there was incredible enthusiasm for the language among the very young - amazing to hear a load of 10 year olds reciting old scots songs... Home roasted Ethiopian, eh? Not for me, thanks, I much prefer yer S. American and Indonesian... Cheers Matt >From: "Stewart C. Russell" > Stewart > >(buzzin' on home roasted ethiopian) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay in touch better and keep protected online with MSNs NEW all-in-one Premium Services. Find out more here. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:37:19 -0600 From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: your attention please > From: "Fortissimo" > Subject: your attention please > > Will the party responsible for installing the "Humpty Dance" in my head > please remove it now? Nope, sorry, can't do that. But, hey, if it will help, try this one: "Skyrockets in flight! Afternoon delight!" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:29:10 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: The Scots language and the geography of decent coffee Matt wrote: > > Listening to the radio this morning there was an article > on the Scots language and how it is disliked by > middle-class scots people 'Twas ever thus. That's how we ended up with the ridiculous Kelvinside (Glasgow) and Morningside (Edinburgh) accents -- the rich merchants tried to affect an English accent, with hilarious results. Been this way since the early 18th century. > Home roasted Ethiopian, eh? Not for me, thanks, I much > prefer yer S. American and Indonesian... I usually prefer Sumatran, but I didn't have enough to share with the office. For all its mildness, the (organic, shade-grown, single-estate, fair trade) Ethiopian has an obscene caffeine content. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:32:42 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: your attention please Eugene wrote: > > "Skyrockets in flight! Afternoon delight!" That's no match for the "Badger Badger Badger" song: Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:11:26 -0600 From: "Jay Lyall" Subject: Not sure if anyone else saw this http://www.scotopiapictures.com/Current/infinity/Infinity11/1114.html - ---------------------------------------- Jay Lyall - Houston, Texas "Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy." - Mike Donohue http://www.johnkerry.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:15:24 -0600 From: "Jay Lyall" Subject: REAP: Boogie Fever http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/16/obit.sylvers.ap/ - ---------------------------------------- Jay Lyall - Houston, Texas "Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy." - Mike Donohue http://www.johnkerry.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:26:50 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Wild Man Fischer (calling Eb?) I know I've heard Wild Man Fischer mentioned here before... by Eb, I think, though I'm not sure. Yesterday I downloaded a mix of stuff from thebignote.com (part of my recent discovery that I like Frank Zappa, which is a whole other post I may or may not get around to) which included two tracks apparently from "An Evening With Wild Man Fischer". I want to hear more. From the look of it, though, I don't really have that choice... nothing in print, three-digit prices on GEMM, etc. Anyway, before I start chasing things down, are "The Taster" and "Circle" representative? They sound relatively together, musically, even though Fischer himself sounds about as crazy as the web makes him out to be. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:12:06 -0800 From: Eb Subject: One weerd film I saw an eyepopping little film last night.... Has anyone ever seen a 1971 film called "Little Murders"? Stars Elliott Gould and a Paula Prentiss/Marsha Mason-type actress named Marcia Rodd. Not familiar with her at all. Directed by Alan Arkin, who cameos in one scene (as does recurrent Gould co-star Donald Sutherland, in a sensational role as a hippie preacher). Written by Jules Feiffer, and the screenplay obviously bears his stamp. The bulk of the film is a blackly satirical odd-couple love story between bossy Rodd and terminally passive Gould, but then the story turns in another bizarre direction which I *never* would have predicted. Wow! It's such a wonderful novelty to get turned on by a film which I hadn't even heard of before beginning watching. :) The same with music too, of course.... Eb, newly upgraded from OS 10.1.5 to OS 10.2.8 (woo!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:54:50 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: One weerd film On Mar 16, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Eb wrote: > Eb, newly upgraded from OS 10.1.5 to OS 10.2.8 (woo!) Hit yer Software Update, 10.3.3 just released yesterday (moo!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:08:52 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: One weerd film On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Steve Talkowski wrote: > On Mar 16, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Eb wrote: > > Eb, newly upgraded from OS 10.1.5 to OS 10.2.8 (woo!) > > Hit yer Software Update, 10.3.3 just released yesterday (moo!) Eb's on dial-up, man. I don't think he'll be doin' any remote software updatin' anytime soon. So, Eb, why is somebody who is pretty much always online using dialup? I imagine you could get a Speakeasy DSL account for less than the price of a phone line in your area. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:09:17 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: One weerd film on 3/16/04 3:54 PM, Steve Talkowski at stevetalkowski@mac.com wrote: > On Mar 16, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Eb wrote: > >> Eb, newly upgraded from OS 10.1.5 to OS 10.2.8 (woo!) > > Hit yer Software Update, 10.3.3 just released yesterday (moo!) For Eb, that would be a $129 upgrade from Jaguar to Panther (Moof!) - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:10:07 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: humph > Natalie: > I met a former feg at a party last week... a New York transplantee > named Doug something-or-other, says he freelances for the Village > Voice and other publications... his name didn't sound familiar, I > guess he was a lurker. > > Douglas Wolk! He's a lovely fellow! I had the sad fortune of only meeting him a few weeks before he and his wife moved away. Aside from music writing, he covers the comics/graphic novel beat for Publishers' Weekly and runs the Dark Beloved Cloud label. Most astounding of all, I hear from a mutual friend he's actually most of the way through the new WIlliam T. Vollmann book. Douglas is lots and lots of intellectually omnivorous fun. Portland's lucky to have 'im. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:12:39 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: your attention please >> Will the party responsible for installing the "Humpty Dance" in my >> head >> please remove it now? > > Nope, sorry, can't do that. > > But, hey, if it will help, try this one: > > "Skyrockets in flight! Afternoon delight!" Or this: "Undercover angel, midnight fantasy... I've never had a dream that made sweet love to me..." Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:14:40 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: One weerd film On Tuesday, March 16, 2004, at 06:12 PM, Eb wrote: > I saw an eyepopping little film last night.... > > Has anyone ever seen a 1971 film called "Little Murders"? Stars > Elliott Gould and a Paula Prentiss/Marsha Mason-type actress named > Marcia Rodd. Not familiar with her at all. Directed by Alan Arkin, who > cameos in one scene (as does recurrent Gould co-star Donald > Sutherland, in a sensational role as a hippie preacher). Written by > Jules Feiffer, and the screenplay obviously bears his stamp. > Wow, thanks for reminding me of that thing! I saw that maybe 17 or 18 years ago and remember loving it. It was a well-known play first, I do recall. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:38:39 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: One weerd film On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Tom Clark wrote: > on 3/16/04 3:54 PM, Steve Talkowski at stevetalkowski@mac.com wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Eb wrote: > >> Eb, newly upgraded from OS 10.1.5 to OS 10.2.8 (woo!) > > Hit yer Software Update, 10.3.3 just released yesterday (moo!) > > For Eb, that would be a $129 upgrade from Jaguar to Panther (Moof!) Yipes! I forgot that some people actually use software that requires sociopathy! J. PS. I just noted in the paper that Little Murders played at the Clinton Street Theater on Monday night. Weird coincidence. It was part of their "Paranoia Film Festival". - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #81 *******************************