From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #116 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 22 2004 Volume 13 : Number 116 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Destroy All Capuchin [was Re: responding to Rex yet again] ["Jason R.] Tinfoil from the home [BLATZMAN@aol.com] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #115 [grutness@surf4nix.com] Fegs everwhere! ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Looking for Sweet [steve ] Nelsmaniax cont'd ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: More Pixies is more better. ["The Mammal Brain" ] What do you mean, Belle & Sebastian does nothing for you?? [Sebastian Hag] RE: Tinfoil from the home ["Matt Sewell" ] RE: reap ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: Well when they start quoting Fegs in Salon.... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #115 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Nelsmaniax cont'd ["Brian" ] Re: What do you mean, Belle & Sebastian does nothing for you?? ["Brian" <] reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #115 [Michael R Godwin ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V13 #115 ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #115 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: happy earth day! [Ken Weingold ] Drive-By Vaseline Catastrophe Pervert [Miles Goosens ] Two Short Messages about Bing Hitler [Miles Goosens ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:06:43 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Destroy All Capuchin [was Re: responding to Rex yet again] At 03:39 PM 4/21/2004 -0500, Fortissimo wrote: >No clue there - I suppose TMBG might be referencing the Cure, but what's >going on in Robert Smith's head, who knows. Actually, Simon Gallup's head. "Mint Car" was the title of his original demo, to which Robert Smith added lyrics and quite possibly he re-worked the tune - he kept the title because he liked it. Man, I LOOOOOOVED "Destroy All Monsters" when I was a kid. - --Jason "I will not admit to having any Cure FAQ pages bookmarked" Thornton "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:10:27 EDT From: BLATZMAN@aol.com Subject: Tinfoil from the home My recording was entirely produced at my friends apartment. Well, it's not actually produced... it was tracked there! Recording there is pretty funny cause we're always dealing with leaf blowers and other odd noises. But it's a great time. I'm dead set on finishing the CD I abandoned. If there is anybody out there willing to listen to it, I'd love some feedback. It's in rough mix phase, but it's always helpful to hear outside opinions, even the negative ones. I'm really excited to get back to it. Stuck in my mind today: Jennifer!!!!! I was originally critical of the words. I'm not anymore! Sorry Brian... it was a gut reaction. Now, the song just does it for me. I don't know how you can hit that gnarly first note with such a growl! What I particularly like about your vocal performance is the attitude. Just enough, and very cool. I'll check out your website soon!!! I'd also like to know if Matt Sewell is American. When I listen to Dark Matter, I really hear "Dock Mattah". Either way, it's awesome!!!!! Dave Blatzy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:19:48 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #115 > >(Bob Hitler, who sold Chevrolets in Ottumwa, Iowa, I think.) > >No, it's the comic Vic Hitler, from one of LaRue's failed schemes on >HILL STREET BLUES. > >I'm now waiting for a Brit to suggest Eddie Hitler. whatever happened to Bing Hitler? >I remember the McWhirter Brothers on the first series of Record >Breakers. Now all of them are dead -- Ross, Norris, and the fabulous Roy >Castle. I'm old. me too. I can still remember Roy playing about 60 musical instruments in 90 seconds, or whatever the record was he set. BTW, I actually *like* "Comfortably numb". Then again, I like a lot of songs where one writer writed the verse and another writes the chorus. They tend to have an interesting (and when they work, usually excellent) dynamic. But solo on acoustic? Ridiculous. The manner of its writing just about demands two voices (having said that, I like RH's solo "A day in the life", which was written in a similar way). > >>there are two bands that just do nothing for me. other current "it" acts > >>which i *really* expected to like, but, sadly, don't: > >Hey, cool fogeytopic. Let's go! Mull Historical Society didn't do it for me, sadly. Neither do Belle & Sebastian. James PS - thanks for tall the M Sweet reccomendations. Looks like I shall be hunting for Altered Beast and Girlfriend. - -- 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, 21 Apr 2004 16:41:55 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Fegs everwhere! >> Alas, it's a different Mike Godwin. >>The user's name? tomclark. Hmm. On a somewhat similar tip, last night one of the Fox guys here called me up afterhours and had me log into his mail system... and I discovered that it is actually called.... fegmail. Fegmail? Yup. Fox Entertainment Group, doncha know. Weird. Michael B: >>I saw Matthew Sweet a couple of months later when he opened up for some band >>that looked like the Can of Bees era Soft Boys, except they didn't have the short >>guy with the Muppet haircut. Sweet opening for the Egyptians must've set a record for relative band volume, where the loudness of the warmup band > the loudness of the headliner. Nice bill, though. Nat: >>In a similar whacked-out improv/noise vein, a friend sent me a live set by the >>Dream Aktion Unit, which consists of Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, and a couple >>of other guys, Does it include some ghastly but non-mellow saxophone? Sounds like an ad-hoc group I saw at All Tomorrow's Parties a few years back... then again, I think O'Rourke was in every band at All Tomorrow's Parties, including Big Star, Cat Power and a couple of band that were playing on the first and second stages at the same time. Okay, I exaggerate, but not by much! Aaron: >>Probably the movie "Destroy All Monsters". (I don't know much about it; >>ask IMDB.) ... I think it refers in some way to Half Japanese as well... at least it seems that I recall one of the Fair bros. wearing a homemade t-shirt reading "Destroy All Monsters" in a publicity photo... dunno much more myself... oh wait, Jeffrey just nailed the reference. Now why is I'm not deleting the above? We may never know. >>I had a similar curiousity about The Cure's "Mint Car" and TMBG's "Mink >>Car", which I have not yet found an answer to. Wondered about that, too. Was it just a misunderstood-title/lyric-turned-real-title, in the vein of the Mystery Trend, the Lightning Seeds, and, erm, Rainland? If not... what gives? Jeffrey: >>Problem is, I've got pretty good ears - so with a song like "Hotel >>California" that I know through osmosis, I could figure it out by ear if >>need be. It's the same seven or eight chords over and over again anyway. Aye, but the rule seems to be that you have to play every little arpeggio just so, per the recording (which falls deeply into my "carnt be arsed" hole), or someone else will grab the guitar from you and do it "right". Said person probably couldn't work out the chord sequence to "Pablo Picasso" by ear, but see if they can't play "Ziggy Stardust" from memory as well. Betcha five dollars! Strange subculture, guitar campfire-hero hobbyists. But I guess someone's gotta buy all those Yamaha acoustics... Jeez, musta sounded like I was being harsher on Stereolab than I meant to be. Yes, their sound evolves while still managing to always sound like Stereolab. And I would still like to see them live. But I'm always surprised by just how many Stereolab records I own and how I can't really pick a spine to pull down from the shelf, and, hey, look, that's a pretty good Stew record right there... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:00:30 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Looking for Sweet On Apr 21, 2004, at 6:19 PM, grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > Looks like I shall be hunting for Altered Beast and Girlfriend. Check out this site for demos - - - Steve __________ Dedicated students of obstetrics will observe that Elizabeth Cheney's birth date falls precisely nine months and two days after the Selective Service publicly revoked its policy of not drafting childless husbands. This would seem to indicate that the Cheneys, though doubtless planning to have children sometime, were seized with an untamable passion the moment Dick Cheney became vulnerable to the Vietnam draft. And acted on it. Carpe diem! Who says government policy can't affect human behavior? - Timothy Noah writes "Chatterbox" for Slate. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:10:56 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Nelsmaniax cont'd Nat: >>Inspired by his recent drafting into Wilco, I also got Nels Cline's "Destroy >>All Nels Cline," which is totally over-the-top skronky avant-jazz... a bit >>wearing at 75 minutes, but worth the dough... I've been meaning to check this out for a while now... Nat, I'd assume you've picked up the Scarnella record by now... Carla and Nels in experimental mode. Good but nothing compared to the live show... Carla has a neat trick of playing bass whilst singing into a toy microphone connected to a tiny plastic speaker which is held to the bass pickups, so that the bass is producing the vocals as well as its own tones, and meanwhile "playing" a keyboard drone by placing weights on different keys throughout the piece. Nels plays kickdrum and guitar with any number of toy rayguns used to similarly attack his pickups, somewhat literalizing the term "stun guitar". Saw them at This Ain't No Picnic, or as me and my friend know it "The Day Emo Ate Indie"... the crowd for Scarnella seemed to consist of me, my friend Mike, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, and some other guy, but a good time was had by all five. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:52:37 -0700 From: "The Mammal Brain" Subject: Re: More Pixies is more better. well, i suppose i oughta admit that i'm not all that crazy about wilco either (though, much like death cab, i do enjoy their live act). i've taken the redneck vibe (which doesn't seem all that overt in any case) as parody. mistaken? anyway, while i do acknowledge that *Decoration Day* is half-brilliant/half-lukewarm, i'm telling you, the new songs, man! the new rekkid is going to challenge sleater-kinney for album-of-the-year honors, methinks. (i read somewhere that sleater-kinney are planning to release an album this year, and assume it's going to rule. after putting theremin and trumpet on their last album, i'm thinking the next one will even have a piano on it, maybe?) i don't think there's one day this year that "Big Sur" hasn't lodged into my head. heh, i always *imagined* you liking "Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)" -- now i've confirmation. by the way, i notice, with shame, that i neglected to place ed harcourt on my friggin' lovin' list. i can't help thinking he's the next robyn hitchcock. which, granted, is kinda like proclaiming the next beatles. but the guy fuckin' *brings* it. (ed, i mean. robyn can't even bring his own ass anymore.) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:41:52 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: What do you mean, Belle & Sebastian does nothing for you?? - --On Donnerstag, 22. April 2004 11:19 Uhr +1200 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > Mull Historical Society didn't do it for me, sadly. Neither do Belle & > Sebastian. Not even "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"?? I can see how the earlier stuff would appeal only to some people (it's rather wimpish, like C89 and anorak bands), but the new CD is just so great that I can't imagine how one could possibly *not* like it! Everyone I play it for loves it. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:40:47 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: Tinfoil from the home I played the Tinfoil Thoths to the Boy Cornelius (drummer) and Jimmy (my bro) the other day and they were suitably impressed, that is, they really thought I was going to inflict some sort of amateur rubbish on them and were very surprised when it was all good. I asked them to take note of Blatzy's contribution, feeling terrible about not being all that keen on it on the first couple of hearings... suffice to say they said I was mistaken and that it was great! Each time I hear the album, it gets better - more proof of this is that Chrissy's quite happy to listen to it - she never pulls any punches when it comes to stuff she doesn't like and is extremely hard to please, so that's the album over the highest bar so far... As for being American, I'm not. I've been saying Dark all morning and true enough, mostly I say something between dark and dork. Perhaps it's a hangover from the days I was Jim Morrison, or perhaps it's an unconcious avoidance of lengthening my vowels - people from Marcham (the village in which I grew up) would say Daaaaaaarrrk. I don't think The New Moon would benefit from the vocals sounding like the Wurzels (hey, maybe it would...). It's tough when it comes to one's singing accent - not having anything of a regional accent beyond estuary English, I don't like to flatten my vowels too much or put on an overly English accent. I try and sing as naturally as I can... Anyway, Dave, I'd love a copy of your CD - perhaps we can do a swap for The New Moon Ep? Cheers Matt >From: BLATZMAN@aol.com >I'm dead set on finishing the CD I abandoned. If there is anybody out there >willing to listen to it, I'd love some feedback. > >Stuck in my mind today: Jennifer!!!!! I was originally critical of the >words. I'm not anymore! Sorry Brian... it was a gut reaction. Now, the song >just does it for me. I don't know how you can hit that gnarly first note with >such a growl! What I particularly like about your vocal performance is the >attitude. Just enough, and very cool. I'll check out your website soon!!! > >I'd also like to know if Matt Sewell is American. When I listen to Dark >Matter, I really hear "Dock Mattah". Either way, it's awesome!!!!! > >Dave >Blatzy - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Half price modem, FREE connection and one month FREE - click here to sign up to BT Broadband. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:22:05 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: reap The doctors gave Norris 6 months to live, but he did it in four... that's a record! Cheers Matt >From: Jeff Dwarf >Norris McWhirter > > > >===== >"Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin > >"I'm going to keep playing music until somebody shoots me." -- Scott McCaughey > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25" >http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Half price modem, FREE connection and one month FREE - click here to sign up to BT Broadband. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:33:02 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Well when they start quoting Fegs in Salon.... Miles Goosens wrote: > > I'm now waiting for a Brit to suggest Eddie Hitler. And I'll come right back at you with Canadian 'toonist Stephen Notley's frequent guest Hitler in his strip Bob The Angry Flower. Apparently, this Hitler was reincarnated by secret nazi scientists and is now indestructable, but turned out -- through his upbringing -- to be a really nice guy, with his own TV show and a sideline in the best apple pies you've ever tasted. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:27:53 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #115 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > > whatever happened to Bing Hitler? He calls himself Craig Ferguson these days, and is no longer very funny. He's made a few rather bad movies. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:14:30 -0400 From: "Brian" Subject: Re: Nelsmaniax cont'd said: Carla > has a neat trick of playing bass whilst singing into a toy microphone > connected to a tiny plastic speaker which is held to the bass pickups, so > that the bass is producing the vocals as well as its own tones, How incredibly interesting! Would work really well with a hollow body. - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:22:03 -0400 From: "Brian" Subject: Re: What do you mean, Belle & Sebastian does nothing for you?? "Sebastian Hagedorn" said: > Not even "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"?? I can see how the earlier stuff > would appeal only to some people (it's rather wimpish, like C89 and > anorak > bands), but the new CD is just so great that I can't imagine how one > could > possibly *not* like it! Everyone I play it for loves it. Ditto. It's really hard not to like. Whenever I play it someone always comments...positvely. On someones request I recently purchased a Momus album. I can sorta see B&S in a similiar vein to Momus, though I'm not too familiar with Momus. - -Nuppy - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:21:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: reap Mary McGrory "The most luminous writer and clearest thinker in the business," the Post quoted New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd as saying at a McGrory tribute several years ago. ...caused President George Bush to complain in his private journal about her, writing, "She has destroyed me over and over again." ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin "I'm going to keep playing music until somebody shoots me." -- Scott McCaughey __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25" http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:10:06 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #115 > At 06:55 PM 4/20/2004 -0500, Fortissimo wrote: > >> Alas, it's a different Mike Godwin. > >Plus, it's a different Hitler. > >Oops. > >(Bob Hitler, who sold Chevrolets in Ottumwa, Iowa, I think.) > From: Miles Goosens > No, it's the comic Vic Hitler, from one of LaRue's failed schemes on > HILL STREET BLUES. > I'm now waiting for a Brit to suggest Eddie Hitler. Everyone knows Eddie is really Vyvyan from the Young Ones. What I can do is suggest Bing Hitler, whom I once saw at the Edinburgh Festival during a big comedy night featuring Arthur Smith, Paul Merton, Griff Rhys Jones and the guy from Cliffhanger Theatre Co who got quite famous, can't remember his name. Anyway, Bing Hitler was obviously something of a local favourite doing a comeback performance by popular request. Stewart, does this ring any bells? > Actually, his brother beat him to it by 29 years. But he cheated - getting blown up by the IRA doesn't count. > I remember the McWhirter Brothers on the first series of Record > Breakers. Now all of them are dead -- Ross, Norris, and the fabulous Roy > Castle. I'm old. I have a clear mental image of Roy in a Carry On film - Up the Khyber, possibly? Or 'Follow that camel'? (Can't be bothered to consult imdb). - - Mike Godwin (this Mike Godwin, not that one) PS Did anyone see that news item about "We built this city on rock n roll" being voted the worst record of all time by some American mag? They obviously haven't heard "Hey Paula" by Paul and Paula, or "Girl bride" by Geoff Goddard. Eb, you've got lists of 100s of worst records, haven't you? I don't remember 'Built this city' figuring largely on any of them. n.p. Geoff Goddard 'Girl bride'. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:06:47 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V13 #115 Mike wrote: >PS Did anyone see that news item about "We built this city on rock n roll" >being voted the worst record of all time by some American mag? They >obviously haven't heard "Hey Paula" by Paul and Paula, or "Girl bride" by >Geoff Goddard. Eb, you've got lists of 100s of worst records, haven't you? >I don't remember 'Built this city' figuring largely on any of them. It was Blender Magazine. Blender describes 1985's "We Built This City" as "the truly horrible sound of a band taking the corporate dollar while sneering at those who take the corporate dollar." Starship lead singer Grace Slick says, "This is not me," when the magazine reminds her of the tune. "Now you're an actor. It's the same as Meryl Streep playing Joan of Arc." Rounding out the top 10: "Achy Breaky Heart," Billy Ray Cyrus; "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" Wang Chung; "Rollin'," Limp Bizkit; "Ice Ice Baby," Vanilla Ice; "The Heart of Rock & Roll," Huey Lewis and the News; "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin; "Party All the Time," Eddie Murphy; "American Life," Madonna; and "Ebony and Ivory," Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. Other songs on the list: Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" (No. 22); Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love of All" (No. 30); Ricky Martin's "She Bangs" (No. 39); Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" (No. 41); Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence" (No. 42); The Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (No. 48); and Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" (No. 50). Blender and VH1's TV special "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs ... Ever" airs May 12. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:38:58 -0400 From: "jer fairall" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Donnie Darko to be re-released theatrically > If that extra footage isn't truly "never seen before" but is the > same as what's in the deleted scenes on the current DVD I don't see how it couldn't be, as I strongly doubt that he was holding anything back on the off chance that the film might one day became a cult classic and he would get the opportunity to rerelease it. I thought some of the deleted stuff was excellent (if inessential), myself, and since it never played anywhere near me, I'll welcome the chance to get to see it in theaters. But yeah, a big part of me wonders why Kelley couldn't be spending the time he is on this actually making another film instead. Jer Support Care2 Email: Stop "scientific" whaling, the whale-killing loophole http://www.care2.com/go/z/12803 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:09:07 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: happy earth day! Not that there's much special going on here, but ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:14:01 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #115 Michael R Godwin wrote: > > Stewart, does this ring any bells? I just found out that Craig "Bing Hitler" Ferguson is better known as Nigel Wick, to anyone who'd admit to watching Drew Carey. Curiously, the IMDB site doesn't mention anything to do with Bing Hitler. Stewart (who has "Bing Hitler Live At The Tron" on minidisc) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:17:20 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: happy earth day! On Thu, Apr 22, 2004, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Not that there's much special going on here, but ... My contribution was collecting all the glue traps maintenance put around our office and squashing them. If any rodents who get in have to die, so be it. But I won't allow them to suffer. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:34:21 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Drive-By Vaseline Catastrophe Pervert At 10:22 AM 4/22/2004 -0400, Brian wrote: >On someones request I recently purchased a Momus album. I can sorta see >B&S in a similiar vein to Momus, though I'm not too familiar with Momus. I cannot see them as being in a similar vein. I love Momus (though I'm too crazy about last year's OSKAR TENNIS CHAMPION), and feel ehhhhhy at best about B&S, but there's a huge gulf in intention, style, and variety, unless Trevor Horn brought along a boatload of synths on B&S' latest. Today I shopped a bit at Tower at lunchtime, and heard this music playing that sounded like Robyn and Kirsty McCall fronting a punk version of Felt. Turns out that it was the new Vaselines best-of. Somehow, even though Kurt Cobain hyped them (me being a staunch Cobain fan, not a negative) and SPIN flipped over them (possibly a negative because this was just as the mag was moving from its expansive early years into its own hidebound trope, and I was already striking out on more and more of their recommendations), I never heard them. I bought this immediately. It's the most Robynesque thing I've heard in ages, maybe even more so than LUXOR. Does this mean that I'd like the Pastels too? At the time, I remember only liking Teenage Fanclub OK and being completely bored by Texas, so I was wary of taking more flyers on Scots bands of the day. Eddie on the Drive-By Truckers: >i've taken the redneck vibe (which doesn't seem all that overt in any case) >as parody. mistaken? Yes, you are. These are men who sincerely love Lynyrd Skynyrd, post-'70s Hank Jr., etc. The DBT albums contain 0% parody. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:49:01 -0700 From: Eb Subject: re: Worst > Eb, you've got lists of 100s of worst records, haven't you? Not really, but they're easy to find on the Web. Just put in "worst" and a couple of perennial title choices like, say, "Ballad of the Green Berets" or "Seasons in the Sun." I recall seeing a pretty good list put together by the folks at WFMU. I saw the Blender list, and thought it was too shortsighted to be even worth discussing. It's pretty much "The 50 Worst Songs of The MTV Age," so fuggit. Any such list which doesn't have "My Ding-a-Ling" on it is null-and-void, as far as I'm concerned. :) I also noticed they put "The Greatest Love of All" on there but NOT "I Will Always Love You"? Please. It also included "The Sound of Silence," which is wholly inexplicable. It was just a poor list. VH1 seems to have innovated this strategy of pushing lousy "all-time list" features, realizing that bad choices will spawn a lot more discussion than good ones. Now Blender's doing it. Phooey. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:55:25 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Two Short Messages about Bing Hitler James Dignan, then Stewart: >> whatever happened to Bing Hitler? > >He calls himself Craig Ferguson these days, and is no longer very funny. >He's made a few rather bad movies. But since you hate everything, it's hard for me to judge based on your comments. :-) later, just Stewart: >I just found out that Craig "Bing Hitler" Ferguson is better known as >Nigel Wick, to anyone who'd admit to watching Drew Carey. I could swear that we'd had this whole conversation before. [sound of me rustling through my e-mail archives] In fact, we did. Here it is: http://www.smoe.org/lists/fegmaniax/2002/v11.n080 http://www.smoe.org/lists/fegmaniax/2002/v11.n083 later, Miles (who really liked THE DREW CAREY SHOW) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:28:05 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Big news from Kansan [OK, now he has moved past "impossible fantasies" and into "wholly fabricated memories" now...] Our Lady Heidi Klum is not going to get married to either one of these gentlemen, Signore Flavio Briatore, the manager of Renault's Formula 1 racing team, or Mr. Sealhenry Samuel, a.k.a. "Seal", the African-British singer. The reason is quite simple: Ms. Klum is already married and not likely to enter into a bigamous arrangement. So, who is she married to? The father of her child, of course. I am very happy to finally announce that Holy Roman Empress Adelheid II, a.k.a. Heidi Klum, and I, Czar Nicholas III, Emperor of All the Russias, a.k.a. Dr. Nicholas A. Kaffes, were married on Easter Sunday, April 11, 2004, at the Imperial Parish Church, St. Basil the Great Greek Orthodox Church, here in Houston, TX. This happy event was attended by a few of our best friends and relatives, including Her Imperial Majesty Konstantina Nikolayevna, the Czarina, a.k.a. Dina Kaffes, and Their Imperial Highnesses, the Princesses Czarevicha Caterina and Irenie, the Duchess of Larisa. Our wedding took place nine months, or the length of a "pregnancy", after our World-historical meeting at her hometown, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, on Sunday, July 13, 2003, and the following miraculous night. We decided to get married now so that our coming daughter, Erzherzogin Helene, the Archduchess of the Holy Roman Empire, would not be born out of wedlock. We could not get married much earlier, because in the Orthodox Church marriages can not take place during Lent and we had to wait for Easter Sunday, the Glorious Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to celebrate Our Own Eternal Union. Our Daughter, Helene "Leni" Kaffes Klum, is expected to be born in mid-May in New York City, Archangel Heidi's Imperial Residence, the capital of the World. That was the birthplace of Our First Daughter, too, the Czarevicha Caterina, who was born there on May 14, 1987. The Imperial Parish Church, St. Basil the Great, will hold her annual Festival during the weekend of May 13 to 16, 2004, to celebrate the Czarevicha's 17th birthday and anticipate the miraculous birth of Erzherzogin Helene. Our loyal subjects may wish to congratulate Us by responding to this message. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #116 ********************************