From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #108 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 14 2004 Volume 13 : Number 108 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Of Montreal ["Natalie Jane" ] Accents ["rubrshrk@harborside.com" ] Re: Of Montreal ["Fortissimo" ] Re: Satanic Panic in the Attic [Vendren ] Re: I fell in loooovvee with the ac-tressss... [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: Satanic Panic in the Attic [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: Accents [Capuchin ] Re: Satanic Panic in the Attic [Capuchin ] Re: Satanic Panic in the Attic ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Accents [Ken Weingold ] Re: Rolling Stone special issue [DougMash@aol.com] Looking to get feg music out [Luther Wills-Dudich ] Kansan tackles the John Cassavetes problem (5% imperial sperm content) [E] Pixies discs? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Kate Rusby ["Bachman, Michael" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:35:39 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: Of Montreal >I really, really like Of Montreal's new album. If Mr Barrett and Mr >Wilson had made a psych-disco album together, it would sound like this. Hmmm... I've been hearing good things about it. I always feel like if Kevin Barnes could ditch some of his cutesiness and self-indulgence he could be a damn good songwriter... there's some real gems in the Of Montreal back catalogue ("Don't Ask Me To Explain," "The Problem With April," and others) but they're always buried under piles of twee. It's the end of an era, yet again... I sold some of my Elephant 6 records (the latest Beulah, the Of Montreal singles comp, and Elf Power's "The Winter is Coming"), as well as Son Volt's "Straightaways," so I could afford the double-disc re-release of Tony Conrad & Faust's "Outside the Dream Syndicate." It was worth it, but I'm gonna miss "The Problem With April." Also, those half-hour Conrad drones are no good for putting on mix CD's. n. _________________________________________________________________ Tax headache? MSN Money provides relief with tax tips, tools, IRS forms and more! http://moneycentral.msn.com/tax/workshop/welcome.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:37:02 -0400 From: "rubrshrk@harborside.com" Subject: Accents Stoort, kin ah hav yer akcent pliz. Foook. Ya kin iven kip yer towy froug. Is there anywhere that a Reno/Santa Cruz/Coastal Oregon accent sounds cool? Tom, I mean besides the moon. Happies, - -Markg - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:09:48 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Of Montreal On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:35:39 -0700, "Natalie Jane" said: > It's the end of an era, yet again... I sold some of my Elephant 6 records > (the latest Beulah, the Of Montreal singles comp, and Elf Power's "The > Winter is Coming"), as well as Son Volt's "Straightaways," so I could > afford > the double-disc re-release of Tony Conrad & Faust's "Outside the Dream > Syndicate." It was worth it, but I'm gonna miss "The Problem With > April." > Also, those half-hour Conrad drones are no good for putting on mix CD's. Hmmm. You could avoid missing the CDs you sold if you'd burned copies of them first. Or am I missing something - I assume your mention of "mix CDs" means you do have a CD burner, right? - --Muddled in Milwaukee - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: "In two thousand years, they'll still be looking for Elvis - :: this is nothing new," said the priest. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:51:51 -0700 From: Vendren Subject: Re: Satanic Panic in the Attic It's a cool disc - love the psychedelic-country moments. "My British Tour Diary" is a great track. I do wish some of the lyrics weren't quite so wierd for wierd's sake, but overall, I think it's Of Montreal's best album yet. Plus, I'm just thrilled to have an album called "Satanic Panic in the Attic" on my shelves. Palle From: "Stewart C. Russell" > I really, really like Of Montreal's new album. If Mr Barrett and Mr > Wilson had made a psych-disco album together, it would sound like this. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:34:22 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: I fell in loooovvee with the ac-tressss... >Bouna Pasqua (or Pasquetta as it is Monday) and happy spring to all! hmph. First sleet of the year yesterday. Winter's arriving waay too early this year. James (happy Easter, Pesach, whatever) - -- 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, 13 Apr 2004 18:38:29 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: Satanic Panic in the Attic Stewart says: >Also being Scottish, my accent is forever enshrined at the GMU accent >archive: . Yeah, that's >my voice. here I was skiting about living in the country where the LOTR movies were shot, and all the time Billy Boyd was hiding on the list! :) 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, 13 Apr 2004 00:45:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Accents On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, rubrshrk@harborside.com wrote: > Stoort, kin ah hav yer akcent pliz. Foook. Ya kin iven kip yer towy > froug. > > Is there anywhere that a Reno/Santa Cruz/Coastal Oregon accent sounds > cool? I've had people tell me they really like my accent. I've had people in PORTLAND comment on my accent. And it's not a Terry Marks thing. Where the hell did Terrence go, anyway? J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 01:07:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Satanic Panic in the Attic On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > here I was skiting about living in the country where the LOTR movies > were shot, and all the time Billy Boyd was hiding on the list! :) What is it with Billy Boyd, anyway? OK, his accent is really thick and that's kind of funny. His Rs roll like drums and vowels are stretched out and thin over a frantic, up-and-down melody of emphasis. But the thing that really gets me is that this guy seems to act like he's on Ecstacy all the time. He seems incredibly impressed and/or amused by everything he describes like some alien child who has come to see Earth for a weekend. My current theory as to why he acts like this is because he is, in fact, on Ecstacy all the time. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 06:44:45 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Satanic Panic in the Attic Capuchin wrote: > > What is it with Billy Boyd, anyway? Who is Billy Boyd, anyway? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 04:04:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Satanic Panic in the Attic On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Who is Billy Boyd, anyway? An actor. He plays Perregrin "Pippin" Took in Peter Jackson's The Lord Of The Rings movies and one of the seamen in Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World. The coolest thing I've seen in weeks: (The "more cargo pictures" link is amazing.) J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:17:24 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Accents On Tue, Apr 13, 2004, Capuchin wrote: > > I've had people tell me they really like my accent. I was told that once. It was by a girl in a bar in London. Oddly enough, she thought I was from the West Coast. Except for stints in Albany, NY, Salem, MA, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, I've lived around NYC my whole life. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:02:57 EDT From: DougMash@aol.com Subject: Re: Rolling Stone special issue The Rolling Stone "Immortals" issue is great, and I love the illustrations and the idea of having other artists write about the immortals, but being owner of a CD store, I had to poll the employees about those left out and those in that maybe should fall short. Here's the six we boiled it down to: Should have been in: Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Kinks, Santana, Eagles, Billy Joel Could have been bumped: Public Enemy, Byrds, Patti Smith, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Band I know some Byrds fans aren't going to agree with my employees! We are all too young to appreciate Domino/Richard, I guess. Nobody admitted to "liking" the Eagles, but they and Billy Joel's greatest hits each were Top 10 all-time in sales. I understand drawing the line before some of the employees personal favorites: AC/DC, Aerosmith, Elvis Costello, Queen & Curtis Mayfield. I love John Lennon's solo stuff, but putting him in solo and as a member of the Beatles bumps someone else. Anyway, it makes for fun discussion! Doug Mashkow CD Island Rockville Centre, NY www.cdislandny.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:41:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Luther Wills-Dudich Subject: Looking to get feg music out Some musical feg grumbled: - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:27:02 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: finally - my Thoth review At long last, as promised, a review Om mane padme hung - Ki Society Fantastic! Perfect for your next Buddhist rave. This would not be out of place on a dancefloor near you, and I'd definitely like to see it used in that context ******************************** So would I !!! So, I would like to see on this list- Are there any DJ's in the house? If you have heard it, and would like to add it to your sets, just email me and I will get a CD mailed out to you. Those who haven't heard the track can find it on the project's website: www.drikungtmc.org/drikung_music.htm Several people on here had emailed me several months ago to my now-departed work-address with possible leads on ambient record labels for the Buddhist chant album I've been working on, which includes the track on the feg album. If people could please re-email me that info at this address, I would appreciate it greatly. - -Luther Wills-Dudich, Ki Society others said: Speaking of Scott: >>Might this be a good place to highlight some of the music from around >>the globe of Fegs? A number of us have music up on the web -- it >>would just take some coordination to put the list together and submit >>it. I could even be convinced to head up the project later next week >>if there is interest. I'm certainly interested; certainly would be a good companion piece for the project I've just completed. Let me know what I can do to help. - - -Rex This would be GREAT! Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:50:03 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Surely there is a market for indie-psych karaoke? Nuppy: >>I'm really, really enjoying the Franz Ferdinand release. I just wanted to >>say it again before it becomes to trendy to say such things. ;) I think they've been added by KROQ, so you got that one in just under the line. Oddly I just heard a new song by... Modest Mouse (!) on KROQ. I'd think it's unusual in this day and age that an established indie stalwart band like that would break through to commercial alternative radio that far into their career. 'Specially since I didn't even know there was a new Modest Mouse album coming out... did they ascend wholly out of indie-dom while I wasn't looking, Fountains of Wayne-style? Carrie: >>Carrie Snodgrass was in a film I saw years ago by Neil Young. I >>remember a long scene where they got high and ate strawberries. It was >>a documentary made on a CSN&Y tour in the early 70s. >>"Journey Through The Past" Wow, somebody actually saw that! It's the source of the only one of the Neil albums as yet unreleased on CD that can actually stay that way for all I care. So I was at a Karaoke bar this weekend and found myself compelled to sing Radio Free Europe because, like, it was there, and I was really curious as to what the words on the screen were, like, going to say. Unfortunately I was unable to stop myself from going all "early-Stipe" and drooping my hair over my face, closing my eyes, and mumbling from memory, so I still don't know. Backing track could've been worse and the KJ kindly provided unholy reverb for every "Calling out!"... but I think the crowd found it all a bit arty, considering that my previous number had been a rather spirited rendition of "Good Hearted Woman". Karaoke is weird. The song lists alway remind me that, for a guy with as many records as I own, I don't know shit about popular music. Even the songs I know I'd recognize by hearing them, I don't know the lyrics, either at all or at least well enough to trust myself not to mangle the meter or melody. Guess I'm more of an "open mic night" kind of guy... Sadly there was no My Bloody Valentine to be sung, so no chance to see the lyrics "Sssiiieeeee.... hhoooooaaah... sssshsssaaaa... aaawhoooaaahhhh" unfurling before me. - -Rex "no Husker Du either, dammit" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:14:26 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Deluxe Thoths now OOP (crap version still available) Just so ya know... Having hand-delivered a copy to the last of the contributors (Mr. Blatzman his own bad self) and abruptly remembered that hey, I should keep one of these puppies for myself, I must now announce that the deluxe handjob edition of Tinfoil Thoths: Songs from the Globe of Fegs is now officially OOP (that'd be "out of print")... Copies are still available but will no longer come with unique crayon-art covers or meticulously assembled jewel cases... you'll get the disc itself, an insert of the back cover with track list, and yeah, I think, the saucily mis-sized booklet complete with gold vellum pages and stuff. Jewel case not included and crayon art to be provided by the recipient. That said, the music contained therein will retain the high standards of quality attested to in recent feglist reviews, so feel free to order away! Oh, and anyone still owing me a trade that I never finalized... let me know, I've totally lost track of that stuff. To those who have sent me trades already, thank you so much... good stuff all. Most importantly, if you ordered and haven't gotten your copy yet, let me know so I can fix that right away! Love you... Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:43:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Surely there is a market for indie-psych karaoke? On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Rex.Broome wrote: > 'Specially since I didn't even know there was a new Modest Mouse album > coming out... did they ascend wholly out of indie-dom while I wasn't > looking, Fountains of Wayne-style? Well, their last album (2000) was already on a major -- they seem to have quietly been a force turning kids on to sorta-indie-sounding guitar rock for a while now. I don't really know why, they're just a lot of folks' first semi-obscure band. The new album is no more or less accessible than the last, but it's pretty good. Anyway, no, I don't think they had a hit single or anything. "Float On" will do well for them if it's getting radio play, but not like Fountains Of Wayne. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:04:39 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Scattershot notes Mild spoilers about unaired Wonderfalls episodes: http://www.surrendertodestiny.com/spoilers/ Can't say any of these fill me with "Oh, I GOTTA SEE THAT!!" anticipation. Perhaps the most remarkable simulation of a "smile" I've ever seen from a dog: http://dogster.com/photos/2398/1.jpg Received a homemade CD-R from the Wrens today, of the rare "Abbott 1135" EP...awfully nice of them. Except for "I Guess We're Done," the songs have a raucous, bash-it-out feel which doesn't touch me real deeply, but all good, all good. The new "artwork" (red letters on a solid blue background...nothing but the band name, the EP name and the track listing) is so spartan that the "We're" in "I Guess We're Done" has a character glitch which I recognize from my own troubles with attachment translations: the apostrophe printed as an "i" with a slanted dot, instead. (I'm sure there's some official term for this character, but I don't know it.) In addition to all his other sins, Dubya is now even pre-empting "24." Tsk tsk. At least there's news that Nick and Jessica will be returning with a Xmas special. Let the pigeons loose, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:06:51 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Kansan tackles the John Cassavetes problem (5% imperial sperm content) >Sugar, what can you tell me about THIS gal's fave Greek Clan, the >Cassavetes, specifically John (now deceased) & Nick?! Janice, thank you very much for this question, because it has made me realize a few more things about myself. The family name Cassavetes, or Kassavetis, is very prominent in my own home city, Volos, Greece. John's father, Nick, came to America from Larisa (or Larissa), a city about 40 miles to the northwest of Volos. (If you remember, I have just awarded the title Duchess of Larisa to my second daughter, Her Imperial Highness Princess Irenie Alexia Kaffes.) Reading John's biographical data, it seems that his family was originally from Epirus, the northwestern corner of Greece, and they later moved to Larisa and the Volos area in the region of Thessaly, in central Greece. The Kassavetis family became very prominent in Zagora, a town close to Volos, and there is an important street in Volos named after them. My own junior high school is on Kassavetis Street in Volos. In elementary school one of my classmates was Caterina Kassavetis, whose father was a Member of the Greek Parliament, representing the constituency of Volos. He served at the same time that my mother's first cousin, Demetrios "Takis" Kardaras, was a Member of the Greek Parliament, representing the constituency of Larisa. My family, too, come from Epirus originally and moved to Larisa and the Volos area. One of my other distant relatives, Christodoulos Kaffes, has served as the Mayor of Larisa, the capital of Thessaly, for many years. I just found another distant relative, Theodosios Kaffes, Mayor in near-by Karditsa: http://www.ecoguide.gr/en/city/show_structure.php3?Id=10 This Theodosios Kaffes looks a little bit like my father, Alexander Kaffes, showing some of the Negritude characteristic of many Greeks. John's father, Nick Cassavetes, managed to attend Harvard University, even though he had come to America as an immigrant, showing his great intellect. John was born on December 9, 1929, and his birthday is exactly six months away from the birthday of Michael J. Fox, June 9. Michael J. Fox, of course, symbolized me as the lover of Our Lady Heidi Klum during the 1998-99 season of "Spin City". John's most famous movie was "Rosemary's Baby" and his own baby, actor Nick Cassavetes, was born on May 21, 1959, on the first day of Gemini, and the feast day of the Saints Constantine and Helen. Gemini Heidi is expected to have our baby this May and name her Helene "Leni", so that her name day will be May 21, the same as that of my wife, the Czarina Constance "Dina". As you may remember, Janice, Rosemary's baby was conceived under unusual circumstances. Archangel Heidi's baby, our baby, has been conceived in a special way, too, through the in vitro fertilization of one of Empress Heidi's eggs with my Imperial sperm in Kenya, the Cradle of Life. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:05:40 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Pixies discs? Has anyone besides me ordered any of the Pixies live discs? I have ordered the last 4 shows. If someone has, do you any interest in trading when they are all done? Please contact me off list if you are. Thanks, Max _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page  FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:50:20 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: Kate Rusby For all the Decemberists fans who love the songs of the sea that they do, then check out Kate Rusby. I just picked up her 2003 release, Underneath The Stars. She has the voice of an angel, at lease a Northern England angel. She sings ancient songs of the sea, it's all acoustic. I never thought I would hear a female voice that would rival Sandy Denny's, but Kate's sure does. Michael B. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #108 ********************************