From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #103 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 7 2004 Volume 13 : Number 103 Today's Subjects: ----------------- "Ark!" she said [grutness@surf4nix.com] I Saw Brad Pitt ["Rex.Broome" ] Travel By Thoth ["Rex.Broome" ] Nooz [Eb ] Comix party in Nyawk [Jon Lewis ] gnatmaniax: Iron & Wine ["Natalie Jane" ] Re: gnatmaniax: Iron & Wine [Eb ] Re: Comix party in Nyawk ["Fortissimo" ] Re: Nooz ["Fortissimo" ] Re: Travel By Thoth ["Fortissimo" ] Re: something dire [steve ] Re: something dire [Eb ] Re: something dire [Steve Talkowski ] Re: Comix party in Nyawk [Steve Talkowski ] Re: something dire [Eb ] Re: some dire Mac chatter [steve ] A Ghost Is Born [Steve Talkowski ] Re: some dire Mac chatter ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: something dire [Aaron Mandel ] Words cannot describe [Ken Weingold ] Re: something dire ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: something dire [Tom Clark ] Our esteemed leader [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:10:00 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: "Ark!" she said Rex sed: >BTW, the Ark of the Covenant? Inventory number 1672374, shelf >location 6742A1. It was just full of sand, so we dumped it out and >stash DAT tapes of production sound from reality shows in there now. >The sled... we burned that. Client stopped paying the bills. never did know what he meant by "Rosebud", sadly... 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, 6 Apr 2004 16:13:49 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: I Saw Brad Pitt Brad Pitt: >>"I was introduced to Nick Drake's music about five years ago, and am a huge >>admirer of his records," said Pitt. Five years ago... well, yes, that was before the VW ad, but by Drake-discovery standards, I'd feel certain that everyone on feg is officially COOLER THAN BRAD PITT. Go, us! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:18:50 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Travel By Thoth Mike G: >> I just thought I would check that the sound >>on Carrier Pigeon was OK (it was fine, the words were as distinct as I >>remembered; Matt, you must be having trouble with my English accent!). >>Any road up, as it came to the second chorus, I heard an alarming thumping >>sound. I looked up just in time to see a dizzy looking pigeon veering away >>westwards, having just crashed into the glass of the picture window!!! Wow. Should I be profoundly worried that I put a song about trains on the record? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:38:21 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Nooz NEW YORK (Billboard) - Wilco lead singer Jeff Tweedy is entering rehab to address an addiction to painkillers, a spokesperson told Billboard.com. "The treatment follows a well-documented history of Tweedy's battle with migraine headaches," according to a statement released by the Chicago group. The release of Wilco's new Nonesuch album, "A Ghost Is Born," has been moved from June 8 to June 22 "to accommodate recovery." There is no word yet as to whether the band will be able to honor its upcoming tour plans, which include a May 1 appearance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in southern California and a June 11 performance at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn. Tweedy's struggles with migraines were on display in the Wilco documentary "I am Trying To Break Your Heart." In a key scene that illustrated his irreparable rift with since-departed band member Jay Bennett, Tweedy becomes sick to his stomach from a migraine while mixing the song "Heavy Metal Drummer" for the 2002 album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." In Greg Kot's upcoming Wilco book "Learning How To Die," Bennett says the footage of Tweedy becoming ill is out sequence; Tweedy insists it is not. Reuters/Billboard ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:38:52 -0400 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Comix party in Nyawk Anyone on the list who enjoys comix, or who enjoys people who enjoy comix, or who likes fish breasts, should come out tomorrow (Wednesday) night for the release party of the Hi-Horse Omnibus, a squarebound comix anthology to which a bunch of my cartoonist pals contributed. It's at the Coral Room in Manhattan (Chelsea to be more precise). It's quite the over-the-top submarine-themed bar, to judge from the website. Jeff Mason, who published the anthology, and publishes my comic too, has also shelled out the extra abalone to have one of the Coral Room's live mermaids in action during the fete. At press time, it was unknown what said mermaid would be wearing above the waist. Any fegs who manage to pick me outta the crowd will get free copies of my True Swamp series. Please come-- my publisher will have to fork over a bunch of money if the bar doesn't clear 2K worth of drinks! Invite/info: http://www.hi-horse.com/hhrelease.html Venue site: www.coralroomnyc.com Jon Lewis PS-- the same Coral Room plays host next week to the Sun City Girls, whom I have not seen seince leaving Seattle in '96. Wheee! Verlaine and Rick Bishop within 3 weeks of each other! How many of my most favorite guitar heroes can I stand?? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:38:37 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: gnatmaniax: Iron & Wine Although I don't have a friend named "psychedelic Terry," nevertheless I ventured forth last night to see Sub Pop folkies Iron & Wine at Holocene, which is a new-ish club in Southeast Portland. The show was sold out and I'd heard they had overbooked by fifty people wonderful. A few hopeful would-be punters were still lurking around the doorway when we went in, begging for extra tickets. I had only previously been to Holocene for a drag king show, and the crowd tonight was rather different a lot of sensitive indie-rock types, and many guys with big woolly beards, even bigger and woollier than that of I&W frontman Sam Beam. My friend Kara, who has a thing about big beards, was very excited. While we waited for the music to start, I bought the new I&W record from Sam Beam's sister and back-up singer, Sarah - I mentioned the film that the band had made of my tinfoil sculpture and put up on their website (www.ironandwine.com), and she laughed raucously. I returned in time for the first act, Langtry, which was actually just the I&W guitarist (a shy, woolly fellow with glasses and long hair), playing finger-picked John Fahey-esque instrumental pieces on his acoustic guitar. He mumbled the titles of the songs so quickly that I mostly couldn't understand what he was saying, but I remember that one was "about a man facing death," and it was called "He Saves Special Stamps for His Last Letters." I thought he was pretty good, and definitely a very good guitarist. The second act was Holopaw, who, like I&W, are on Sub Pop and are from Florida. The singer emoted a lot and looked like Peter Garrett from Midnight Oil, but I paid more attention to the drummer, who looked like a bespectacled hobbit. They played kind of woozy psych/folk/indie-flavored stuff which I felt like I should have liked better. It didn't quite come together for me, though. I had felt the same way when I downloaded one of their songs a few months ago, so I guess that song was typical of their sound. I&W took the stage shortly thereafter. Sam Beam has a crewcut now, and his big beard was, as usual, very neatly trimmed. He was joined by his sister, the Langtry guy on guitar and banjo, a drummer who resembled a bearded Jason Alexander and sometimes looked like he was about to fall asleep, and a guy playing electric bass, the only electric instrument present. Sam played a little Taylor guitar and also the pretty Gibson that he played last time, with the mother-of-pearl stars on the neck and the bridge. As I expected, their set was hushed (with the very occasional bit of rocking out), hypnotic, and dreamily beautiful  they mostly played newer stuff that I didn't recognize, with a few songs from their first record such as their show-stopping epic, "Upwards Over the Mountain" and a great full-band arrangement of "Southern Anthem." Unlike last time, I could actually hear Sarah's angelic backing vocals, and she also plays a mean whatever that thing is called where you scrape a stick across a ridged hollow piece of wood. One thing I liked about their performance was their whole good-natured attitude. Despite the very solemn music, they didn't seem po-faced or overly serious, and Sam smiled and made the occasional wry comment between songs, as when someone in the back kept knocking over a glass or a bottle, over and over again  "You OK back there?" he inquired in his mild Southern accent. There was also some on-stage laughter when the guitarist's cell phone went off. ("That's never happened before!" said the drummer). When the audience, as custom dictates, demanded an encore, Sam said reprovingly, "It's a school night!", but they came out and played an encore anyway. A group of girls in the back kept trying to request "Promising Light," but didn't know the name of the song, so they resorted to shouting random lyrics from it: "TUGGING YOUR SKIRT!" "Tuck in my shirt?" a bewildered Sam replied. "NOW I SEE LOVE!!" they shouted later, and finally the band figured it out, and played the song (though Sam forgot some of the words). They also played their cover of the Flaming Lips' "Waiting for a Superman," which I had never heard before. As with their cover of the Postal Service's "Such Great Heights," they made it sound as if Sam had written it himself. And that's all that happened. n. p.s. I've never seen Wonderfalls, but naturally it was doomed from the beginning, because nothing Andy Partridge has ever been involved with has been anything other than doomed. Andy is the kiss of death. Fortunately, he did cause the Verve Pipe to break up, though.... (they *have* broken up, right? Please tell me they have.) p.p.s. I got my copy of Tinfoil Thoths a few days ago - thanks, Rex! The cover looks like a crayon version of the Olivia Tremor Control's "Black Foliage." More later when I've listened to the whole thing... _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page  FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 19:33:25 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: gnatmaniax: Iron & Wine > He was joined by his sister What does she blow? > p.s. I've never seen Wonderfalls, but naturally it was doomed from > the beginning, because nothing Andy Partridge has ever been involved > with has been anything other than doomed. Andy is the kiss of death. I liked his song as an independent Song, but I must say that it didn't really seem like a Television Series Theme to me. Something not quite right about it, for the purpose it served. General note: Am seeing the Decemberists tomorrow night, unless something dire goes wrong. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 22:19:42 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Comix party in Nyawk On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:38:52 -0400, "Jon Lewis" said: > Anyone on the list who enjoys comix, or who enjoys people who enjoy > comix, or who likes fish breasts, should come out tomorrow (Wednesday) > night for the release party of the Hi-Horse Omnibus, a squarebound > comix anthology to which a bunch of my cartoonist pals contributed. > It's at the Coral Room in Manhattan (Chelsea to be more precise). It's > quite the over-the-top submarine-themed bar, to judge from the website. > Jeff Mason, who published the anthology, and publishes my comic too First: which one is that? Second: shouldn't the singular of "comix" be spelled "comi>" or something? - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb :: --Batman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 22:23:44 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Nooz On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:38:21 -0700, "Eb" said: > In Greg Kot's upcoming Wilco book "Learning How To Die," Bennett says > the > footage of Tweedy becoming ill is out sequence; Tweedy insists it is > not. Barfgate! - ------------------------------- ...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, 06 Apr 2004 22:25:56 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Travel By Thoth On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:18:50 -0700, "Rex.Broome" said: > Mike G: > >> I just thought I would check that the sound > >>on Carrier Pigeon was OK (it was fine, the words were as distinct as I > >>remembered; Matt, you must be having trouble with my English accent!). > >>Any road up, as it came to the second chorus, I heard an alarming thumping > >>sound. I looked up just in time to see a dizzy looking pigeon veering away > >>westwards, having just crashed into the glass of the picture window!!! > > Wow. Should I be profoundly worried that I put a song about trains on > the record? Only if you'd used my joke about "laying down some tracks." - --------------------------- J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 23:47:16 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: something dire On Apr 6, 2004, at 9:33 PM, Eb wrote: > General note: Am seeing the Decemberists tomorrow night, unless > something dire goes wrong. But that would be good, yes? Unless something dire is the opening act. - - Steve __________ Does pop music really change anything other than the width of a teenager's trousers? Is there really no Santa Claus on the evening stage? Does the shed hold only a push bike, or is there a lawn mower in there too? Well, I've done the research, talked to the culprit's parents and come to my own conclusions. The answer is this: God's atoms have been scattered and re-assembled in the form of a fluffy bunny. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:11:01 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: something dire >> General note: Am seeing the Decemberists tomorrow night, unless >> something dire goes wrong. > > But that would be good, yes? Got me on a technicality. ;) Do all "mac.com" accounts require you to attach a "signature photo" to your emails? I see them in posts from both you and the *other* Steve...faintly irritating having to permanently store these icons on my hard drive. Best "24" episode in quite awhile tonight! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 01:24:37 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: something dire On Apr 7, 2004, at 1:11 AM, Eb wrote: > Do all "mac.com" accounts require you to attach a "signature photo" to > your emails? No. But it's a fun "Mac" thing. Plus, it's also integrated with iChat. > I see them in posts from both you and the *other* Steve...faintly > irritating having to permanently store these icons on my hard drive. Geez, they only take up like 4 KB each (1,500-2,000 bytes or so). Is your hard drive THAT full? ;) - -- Steve Talkowski Animation Director / Hornet Inc. 213 West 35th St. Suite 605 New York, NY 10001 917.351.0520 x20 www.hornetinc.com www.hornetinc.com/quaker (latest spots here) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 01:53:08 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Comix party in Nyawk On Apr 6, 2004, at 8:38 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: > At press time, it was unknown what said mermaid would be wearing > above the waist. Well, this is what she was wearing at my DJ/performer friend Princess Superstar's X-Mas party last December: http://idisk.mac.com/stevetalkowski/Public/coral_webpics/index.html Damn Jon, if I didn't already have plans I would totally stop by to support ya'll! - -Steve p.s. Saw Hellboy last night - a worthy comic book adaptation! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 23:01:59 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: something dire >> I see them in posts from both you and the *other* Steve...faintly >> irritating having to permanently store these icons on my hard drive. > > Geez, they only take up like 4 KB each (1,500-2,000 bytes or so). Is > your hard drive THAT full? ;) > Said "faintly" irritating. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 01:09:22 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: some dire Mac chatter On Apr 7, 2004, at 12:11 AM, Eb wrote: > Do all "mac.com" accounts require you to attach a "signature photo" to > your emails? I see them in posts from both you and the *other* > Steve...faintly irritating having to permanently store these icons on > my hard drive. No, not required. I think this feature goes back to the original NeXT Mail. But isn't a tiny bit of space a small price for seeing my neato Kiki or Totoro? - - 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: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:10:54 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: A Ghost Is Born Sure hope the tour isn't delayed too much: http://wilcoworld.net/ghost/index.html Not bad, not bad at all... - -- Steve Talkowski Animation Director / Hornet Inc. 213 West 35th St. Suite 605 New York, NY 10001 917.351.0520 x20 www.hornetinc.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:47:26 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: some dire Mac chatter steve wrote: > > No, not required. I think this feature goes back to the original NeXT > Mail. I think X-Faces date back to the 80s, probably under the (otherwise execrable) SunTools. Blah, how I hated SunTools. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:32:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: something dire On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Steve Talkowski wrote: > Geez, they only take up like 4 KB each (1,500-2,000 bytes or so). Are these special double-weight bytes or something? a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:23:52 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Words cannot describe http://www.johnnyfayva.com/ The Hey Joe video is awesome. I think that's Dave Navarro on guitar. Iraqi Freedom isn't bad either. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 17:59:03 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: something dire Aaron Mandel wrote: > >>Geez, they only take up like 4 KB each (1,500-2,000 bytes or so). > > Are these special double-weight bytes or something? Snarky Unshaven Unix Guy Who Has Spent Too Long Working With Designers In Publishing sez: Apple Bytes are actually 16-bits. The top 8 bits are the same as the bottom 8 bits, 'cos you've always got to tell Mac users the same thing twice before it sinks in. >;-P ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:34:19 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: something dire on 4/7/04 2:59 PM, Stewart C. Russell at scruss@sympatico.ca wrote: > Aaron Mandel wrote: >> >>> Geez, they only take up like 4 KB each (1,500-2,000 bytes or so). >> >> Are these special double-weight bytes or something? > > Snarky Unshaven Unix Guy Who Has Spent Too Long Working With Designers > In Publishing sez: Apple Bytes are actually 16-bits. The top 8 bits are > the same as the bottom 8 bits, 'cos you've always got to tell Mac users > the same thing twice before it sinks in. >;-P Could you repeat that? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:50:02 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Our esteemed leader http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040406/480/ pmm10704061713&e=2&ncid ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #103 ********************************