From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #117 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, April 23 2004 Volume 13 : Number 117 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Vaselines emendation [Miles Goosens ] Polyphonic Scrubs [Tom Clark ] Re: Big news from Kansan [Miles Goosens ] Re: Two Short Messages about Bing Hitler ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Not to bring up fake genres again, but... ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Not to bring up fake genres again, but... [Sebastian Hagedorn ] WHAT?? ["Marc Holden" ] creepy Keillor [Miles Goosens ] RE: various ["David Stovall" ] Tinfoil Hitlers from Home [Groove Puppy ] Re: big news from Kansan [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: bad songs [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: bad songs [Eb ] Re: bad songs [Glen Uber ] Hey Paula [Jill Brand ] I'm so excited [Jill Brand ] Re: I'm so excited [Eb ] RE: bad songs ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: I'm so excited [Glen Uber ] Re: bad songs ["Michael Wells" ] Re: Tinfoil Hitlers from Home ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Big news from Kansan [Elizabeth Brion ] RE: bad songs ["Fortissimo" ] Re: big news from Kansan ["Fortissimo" ] Re: bad songs ["Randalljr" ] Mmmm, Pocky [steve ] Re: bad muskrats [steve ] RE: Tinfoil Hitlers from Home ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: Two Short Messages about Bing Hitler ["Matt Sewell" Subject: Vaselines emendation That Vaselines comp isn't new (thanks, Eb!). I had mistaken the signs (being played in-store, buttload of copies on hand) as those of a new release, but a quick search reveals it to have existed since 2002. So it's merely new to me. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:37:53 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Polyphonic Scrubs Just got a chance to watch last Tuesday's episode of "Scrubs". It was interesting to see them fit the entire Polyphonic Spree into one small hospital room. That show never fails to entertain. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:46:45 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Big news from Kansan Kansan, via Eb: > The reason is quite simple: Ms. Klum is already married and not >likely >to enter into a bigamous arrangement. ...and (setting aside the delusions for a moment) marrying Nick Kaffes wouldn't be entering a bigamous arrangement? I guess the Czar can annul marriages at will, though we also see that Czarina Dina attended the wedding. I was disappointed by the lack of numerology in that post -- though dates were mentioned, they were missing the characteristic "April 11 is six months after the date on which Michael J. Fox stubbed his toe in 1998, which links me to Heidi Klum" specious numerological leaps (if "specious numerology" isn't redundant enough). later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:06:44 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Two Short Messages about Bing Hitler Miles Goosens wrote: > > But since you hate everything, it's hard for me to judge based on your comments. :-) To paraphrase either Bing or Jerry Sadowitz: "There are only two things I hate: 1) People 2) Things." Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:05:46 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: Nels Cline, ghastly saxophones, and other subjects >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. Nope, but I shall soon. I think I mentioned long ago that I saw Carla open up for Wilco in September, doing her Willie Nelson tribute thingie... she played solo (unless you count "Mr. Electric Tamboura"), but I'd like to see her with Mr. Cline. I think she actually did play here with him the night after the Wilco show, but by that time (after also seeing her do an in-store), I was kinda Carla'd out. Oh, and I erased this part of the digest, but Dream Aktion Unit (the noise-improv thing with Thurston Moore and co.) did indeed include a ghastly and non-mellow saxophone... I've seen pictures of the group, and the saxophonist looks like a bald, red-faced Santa Claus, which is kind of scary. And the drummer looks like Eddie. Speaking of which... >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.) Heh... yeah, really. I played an Ed Harcourt track on my radio show... last year, I think? I can't remember... I thought it was pretty but too lush. I'm kind of with Miles on this one, there's only so much lushness I can take before my arteries start to congeal. Re. Stereolab, I agree that there is definitely a progression to their stuff, but it does seem like they are very homogeneous within the two phases of their career (Kraut-rock drone vs. arty lounge-pop). I sold my copy of "Transient Random Noise-Bursts" a while ago, for some reason... I can't remember why, because I totally love "Jenny Ondioline." Must've been during one of my really desperate unemployed periods. I sold my Beastie Boys records then too. I'm getting my hair colored again today, maybe they'll play Rufus Wainright again. n. p.s. The name "Niagara" is a blast from my Ann Arbor past... she's been around a lot in the Ann Arbor scene, but I'll be damned if I can remember what else she's been involved with. p.p.s. Yes, there really is a band called Two Cow Garage. I didn't make that up. _________________________________________________________________ Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=hotmail/es2&ST=1/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:13:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Polyphonic Scrubs Tom Clark wrote: > Just got a chance to watch last Tuesday's episode of > "Scrubs". It was interesting to see them fit the entire > Polyphonic Spree into one small > hospital room. That show never fails to entertain. And it's on again tonight @ 9:30 with another new episode. I still completely detest that song though. ===== "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 13:15:28 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Not to bring up fake genres again, but... Eddie: >>(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?) Perhaps even more radically... bass guitar? Sebastian: >>I can see how the earlier stuff would appeal only to some people (it's rather wimpish, >>like C89 and anorak bands), Shit, there was a C89 genre as well as a C86? Whoa. (Just joshin'...) Matt (U.K.): >>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... My dad used to insist that accents inevitably vanished when one sang. I dunno how he kept on believing that when there were so many readily available counterexamples. Kinda funny how these days more American singers affect British accents than the other way around. I'm trying to sound more Australian these days, though... >>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! What cracks my shit up about this is that Blatzy's original post encourage more unapologetic criticism of the songs on the disc, and the result seen here is the softening of one of the only negative comments posted about a track on the compilation thus far! See, I thought we were all surly, mean-spirited, and negative. Shows what I know. - -Rex, musical artist in the C04 ideom... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:24:58 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Polyphonic Scrubs >> Just got a chance to watch last Tuesday's episode of >> "Scrubs". It was interesting to see them fit the entire >> Polyphonic Spree into one small >> hospital room. That show never fails to entertain. > Does that Spree guy always sing like such a, er, spazz? His flailing-about gave me the creeps. Love Scrubs, though. They even fixed my biggest complaint about the show: They toned down the "evilness" of the janitor. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:47:34 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Not to bring up fake genres again, but... - -- "Rex.Broome" is rumored to have mumbled on Donnerstag, 22. April 2004 13:15 Uhr -0700 regarding Not to bring up fake genres again, but...: > Sebastian: >>> I can see how the earlier stuff would appeal only to some people (it's >>> rather wimpish, like C89 and anorak bands), > > Shit, there was a C89 genre as well as a C86? Whoa. (Just joshin'...) I think it's more likely that I was/am confused ... C86 is probably what it was. What's "joshing", anyway? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:52:46 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: C86, take two OK, this clears things up for me: At least both "anorak" and B&S get mentioned, so even though I was off regarding the year, the general idea seems to be sound ;-) I never had/heard the tape, but C86 was all the rage in Spex, the German hipster magazine, around the time. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:30:14 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: WHAT?? Rex said: >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. I had thought they screwed up the sound when Matthew Sweet open for RH&E at Lisner Auditorium in DC. It seemed unnecessarily loud. I was glad they didn't try to turn the Egyptians up even higher. The only show I can recall where the opener was so much louder than the headliner was Utopia opening for the Tubes in Columbia, MD. It was painfully loud. We had 3rd row seats, and it was bad enough we went to first aid to get ear plugs. 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? I heard about a fraternity drinking game based on the song. Each participant was given a 6 pack. The song was played repeatedly until each person finished all 6 beers. The game was banned under the reasoning that "no one should be forced to drink beer that quickly". >It also included "The Sound of Silence"... wtf? Later, Marc You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. Frank Zappa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:26:42 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: creepy Keillor Being in the car at just the right moment at lunchtime, I heard Garrison Keillor's daily NPR author/book thingy, which, on the pro side, was all about Henry Fielding, this being his birthday. So happy birthday to the author of my favorite novel, TOM JONES. On the con side, it entailed listening to Garrison Keillor. Both Melissa and I are as creeped out by Keillor as we are by Stephen King (and we're talking personality here, not necessarily subject matter of their artistic endeavors). It's probably just us, isn't it? later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:35:14 -0700 From: "David Stovall" Subject: RE: various >From: grutness@surf4nix.com >Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #115 >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 The versions on David Gilmour's live DVD (London Festival Hall/meltdown festival - I forget the exact name/title of it) are excellent in that respect. The first one features Robert Wyatt on the verses ("Hello, is there anybody in there?" parts) and Gilmour on the rest; the second ("bonus" material from a different show) has Sir Bob Geldof in place of Wyatt. >From: "Rex.Broome" >Subject: Fegs everwhere! >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. I saw that tour, but would *much* rather have seen the originally-scheduled House of Freaks in place of Matthew Sweet. Despite the interesting stuff he did in Golden Palominoes, I've never cared much for his solo stuff. da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:32:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Groove Puppy Subject: Tinfoil Hitlers from Home BLATZMAN > My recording was entirely produced at my friends > apartment. Well, it's not > actually produced... it was tracked there! My contribution (as Rectifier) was entirely recorded and produced on an old P200 situated in a cupboard in our bedroom. I'm almost finished a two room mini recording studio in my garage though, sporting a Behringer UB2222FX-PRO desk, Alesis M1 Mk2 powered monitors and (to be purchased) a spiffy new PC. Probably won't improve the music any! 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. But surely you jest. D.C. is spiffy! > (who has "Bing Hitler Live At The Tron" on minidisc) OK, I used to work with a guy who hung out at the Glasgow pool hall where Craig used to work. 'course that was back when he was a Scotsman. (H) n.p. - Madvillain "Madvillainy" and the A's game too! Fare thee well Norris. With no identical bro. Curse you IRA! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25" http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:41:57 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: big news from Kansan > 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. > >[...] > > 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 somewhere in the distance, a cuckoo clock is striking 14. 1. Heidi will not enter into a bigamous relationship 2. Heidi is marrying Nick 3. Nick is married to Dina anyone here care to do the Logic 101 on that? 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: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:49:07 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: bad songs >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. Worst hit single, which could be why those others weren't considered - - but there were some choices on the list that caused a few raised eyebrows in these parts ("Sound of silence", for instance). As to worst song, I still reckon you'd have to go some way to better (?) Pat Campbell's "The deal". Off the top of me head, a smattering of other clunkers that are worse that "We built this city" (horrible though that song may be): "Teddy bear" by Red Sovine "Zoom" by Fat Larry's Band "Yummy yummy yummy" by Ohio Express "Shaddap you face" by Joe Dolce 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: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:11:51 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: bad songs On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 04:49 PM, grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > "Yummy yummy yummy" by Ohio Express > Heretic! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:25:55 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: bad songs On Apr 22, 2004, at 4:49 PM, grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > Off the top of me head, a smattering of other clunkers that are worse > that "We built this city" (horrible though that song may be): "Honey" Bobby Goldsboro "You're Having My Baby" Paul Anka "Seasons In The Sun" Terry Jacks "Afternoon Delight" Starland Vocal Band I'm back, - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:29:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Hey Paula I don't think that Hey Paula is a worse song than They Built This City. Actually, it is the same song, just less pretentious. Jill, just back from Mystic, Connecticut ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:32:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: I'm so excited I just got e-mail from the New England Patriots that my 3 Games to Glory II DVD has been shipped and should be arriving any day. It's not a new Soft Boys recording, but its possibly the next best thing. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:37:36 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: I'm so excited > I just got e-mail from the New England Patriots that my 3 Games to > Glory > II DVD has been shipped and should be arriving any day. It's not a new > Soft Boys recording, but its possibly the next best thing. > Which one plays bass? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:42:59 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: bad songs James: > "Yummy yummy yummy" by Ohio Express Really?! I think it's just about perfect. And it gets extra points for inspiring the intro to The Cars' "Just What I Needed". Maybe you've just never had love in your tummy, James. +brian in New Orleans ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:53:03 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: I'm so excited On Apr 22, 2004, at 5:32 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > I just got e-mail from the New England Patriots that my 3 Games to > Glory > II DVD has been shipped and should be arriving any day. It's not a new > Soft Boys recording, but its possibly the next best thing. Do *NOT* make me remind you that it was no more a tuck than Bush is an environmentally-friendly president. *cough*FUMBLE*cough* Still bitter, - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:04:57 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: bad songs +brian the popsicle discounter writes: > Maybe you've just never had love in your tummy, James. If not, you could always ask Rod Stewart how it feels. Wow, what a way to sign back on. MW ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:09:59 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Tinfoil Hitlers from Home Groove Puppy wrote: > > But surely you jest. D.C. is spiffy! Well, I can't bring myself to watch it. I'd have to get a TV first, for one. Stewart ps: I think that, as a Toronto municipal taxpayer, I am now required to say, at least once, "Go Leafs!". ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:21:42 -0700 From: Elizabeth Brion Subject: Re: Big news from Kansan Anyone know where those two crazy kids are registered? Elizabeth, trying to observe the niceties of etiquette ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:48:40 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: RE: bad songs On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:42:59 -0500, "Brian Huddell" said: > James: > > > "Yummy yummy yummy" by Ohio Express > > Really?! I think it's just about perfect. And it gets extra points for > inspiring the intro to The Cars' "Just What I Needed". Possibly - one source anyway. If you've ever heard "Mirage" by Tommy James & the Shondells, not only did the Cars get the clicky rhythm-guitar bit from it, but a lot of Greg Hawks' synth moves as well (although the Shondells' track just has electric organ). I'll defend both songs. I think harmless pop songs are exempt, mostly: first, there's no particular aspiration to greatness; second, if all they aspire to is catchiness, and a lot of us here can hum them nearly forty years later...mission accomplished, I'd say. The reason tracks like "Having My Baby" make the list is their attempted address to contemporary issues (in which category yummy loving in the tummy was not); i.e., its blatant, gooey gesturing at a pre-feminist past. Surely someone mentioned "Muskrat Love," right? Just on grounds that, what the fuck? Who even would think about writing a song about swampland creatures in love (well, okay - that might be uncomfortably close to various amphibians, sea creatures, and crustacae...) but then imagining its dramatis personae as big-eyed Kean painting plush toys? Oh - and my favorite description of "A Horse with No Name" is, I believe, Randy Newman's: "It sounds like a song written by a kid who thinks he's taken acid." Brilliant. The stinky thing about "We Built This Shitty" is...wait, there are many stinky things about it. As someone pointed out, it sings about "integrity" in the most blatantly corporate-rock stylee possible for its day. It's also redolent of that annoying late '70s school of "I'm OK, You're OK" rock (see "Fooling Yourself" by Styx - which definitely *should* have made the list...did it?), inane and condescending in its nauseatingly ingratiating attempt to boost its pimply audience's self-esteem. Plus, most rock songs about rock suck* - they reek of, uh, got nothing else to say...I know! We'll sing about how great it is to rock! Yeah! Finally, the band's proud pedigree makes it the musical equivalent of a drunken Mickey Mantle getting whiffed on three none-too-accurate pitches by a middling Little League pitcher: if no one in Starshit had ever done anything worth your musical while, the song would be awful...but because they had, that makes it even worse. Oh! I also nominate all those songs from the early '80s that knocked off the Doobie Brothers' lick from "What a Fool Believes" - most particularly Robbie DuPree's (sp?) "Hot Rod Hearts," with its charming scene of second-degree sexual assault (if I remember right) rendered in the style and mode of a "Golden Grahams" cereal commercial (who *also* ripped off Mr. Michael McDonald's little keyboard dealy). (Yes, sadly - that even includes the otherwise lovely "Ashes to Ashes" by a D. Bowie ne Jones...) * some exemption blanket-offered to pre-1960 - when there was actually some novelty in the whole "rocking" thing. - ------------------------------- ...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: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:52:12 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: big news from Kansan On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:41:57 +1200, grutness@surf4nix.com said: > somewhere in the distance, a cuckoo clock is striking 14. > > 1. Heidi will not enter into a bigamous relationship > 2. Heidi is marrying Nick > 3. Nick is married to Dina > > anyone here care to do the Logic 101 on that? You forget that "Nick" is only an Earth-1 Analogue Flesh-Template Avatar of his True Nature. "Marriages" of such beings exist in a different spatio-temporal order from those of the Immortals, you fuckhead. Geez. Also: On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:21:42 -0700, "Elizabeth Brion" said: > Anyone know where those two crazy kids are registered? Straitjackets 'R' Us? - ------------------------------- ...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: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:26:21 -0700 From: "Randalljr" Subject: Re: bad songs ........and, like the R & R Hall of Fame, Rush is snubbed again. Surely some list somewhere proclaims "Tom Sawyer" as unlistenable. Vince P.S. Free Alex! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:37:50 -0500 From: steve Subject: Mmmm, Pocky - - Steve __________ blumenthal gloss jenny avert cabot nuzzle bulge inconsequential bottom volterra birth alive keats absentia illegitimacy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:11:48 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: bad muskrats On Apr 22, 2004, at 10:48 PM, Fortissimo wrote: > Surely someone mentioned "Muskrat Love," right? Just on grounds that, > what the fuck? Who even would think about writing a song about > swampland > creatures in love (well, okay - that might be uncomfortably close to > various amphibians, sea creatures, and crustacae...) but then imagining > its dramatis personae as big-eyed Kean painting plush toys? The original, by Willis Alan Ramsey. As far as Kean goes..... - - 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: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:47:10 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: Tinfoil Hitlers from Home The New Moon EP was recorded at producer Jimmy Hetherington's house on the Iffley Road, Oxford. Over the 4 songs, 3 guitars were overdubbed - the rest is live. First time I've recorded on disc rather than tape. In other New Moon news (which, if you would like to receive the emails at which I try so hard to make them entertaining, you can receive direct to yer puter by emailing thenewmoonnews@hotmail.com), Ian Nixon has taken semi-retirement so we've recruited Jesus lookalike Mark Bosley to play bass. Cheers Matt So farewell Norris Rightwing as the queen mother With less manky teeth >From: Groove Puppy > >BLATZMAN > > My recording was entirely produced at my friends > > apartment. Well, it's not > > actually produced... it was tracked there! > >My contribution (as Rectifier) was entirely recorded >and produced on an old P200 situated in a cupboard in >our bedroom. > >I'm almost finished a two room mini recording studio >in my garage though, sporting a Behringer UB2222FX-PRO >desk, Alesis M1 Mk2 powered monitors and (to be >purchased) a spiffy new PC. Probably won't improve >the music any! > >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. > >But surely you jest. D.C. is spiffy! > > > (who has "Bing Hitler Live At The Tron" on minidisc) > >OK, I used to work with a guy who hung out at the >Glasgow pool hall where Craig used to work. 'course >that was back when he was a Scotsman. > >(H) n.p. - Madvillain "Madvillainy" and the A's game >too! > >Fare thee well Norris. >With no identical bro. >Curse you IRA! > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25" >http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have more fun with your phone - download ringtones, logos, screensavers, games & more. Click here to begin! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:58:31 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: Two Short Messages about Bing Hitler Actually, JS said he hated 3 things - people, things and miscellaneous "just in case I've missed anything out" Cheers Matt >From: "Stewart C. Russell" >> >>But since you hate everything, it's hard for me to judge based on >>your comments. :-) > >To paraphrase either Bing or Jerry Sadowitz: "There are only two >things I hate: 1) People 2) Things." > > Stewart - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay in touch better and keep protected online with MSNs NEW all-in-one Premium Services. Find out more here. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #117 ********************************