From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #122 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 29 2004 Volume 13 : Number 122 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Re: (extracting the) [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: (extracting the) [Eb ] Re: (extracting the) [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Shuffling over the flags [Michael R Godwin ] Iraqi flag [Christopher Gross ] Re: hippo bidet, Bayoman [] [RobynHitchcockClub] The Largo Show! [fingerpuppets ] Thoths in Translation (Antipodean Overlay) ["Rex.Broome" ] Thanks from a lurker [anthony stokes ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:47:56 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: Re: (extracting the) Happy Bayard day! Oh, and while I'm here, I just realised that - in that list of 'worst songs ever" I never mentioned "My ding-a-ling" (the song, that is). Even the wealth of Chuck Berry's catalogue is not enough to forgive this piece of donkey do. 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, 27 Apr 2004 23:54:23 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: (extracting the) > Happy Bayard day! Didn't Bayard recently quit the list, or am I confusing him with someone else? > Oh, and while I'm here, I just realised that - in that list of 'worst > songs ever" I never mentioned "My ding-a-ling" (the song, that is). I mentioned it.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:34:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: (extracting the) Eb wrote: > > Happy Bayard day! > > Didn't Bayard recently quit the list, or am I confusing > him with someone else? No, he did recently leave. > > > Oh, and while I'm here, I just realised that - in that > > list of 'worst songs ever" I never mentioned "My ding > > -a-ling" (the song, that is). > > I mentioned it.... Due to the truly wretched nature of that song though, it can't be mentioned enough. Between that and his latter, erm, cinematic misadventures with his restaurant, I can't ever bring myself to really listen to Chuck even though he was great. Well, that and he's supposedly one of the absolutely most loathesome pricks you could ever be stuck meeting. ===== "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!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:43:05 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Shuffling over the flags James, have you seen this? http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=515997 The web article doesn't show a picture, but it's revolting. A pale blue right-facing crescent on a white ground, and 3 horizontal stripes in the bottom third of the flag, mauve, gold, mauve (the article describes the stripes as blue, but the pic shows mauve). Clearly part of the campaign to alienate everybody who hasn't been alienated already. - - Mike PS Loved SDNTSWOHM! Not so sure about IKTFOJ, however... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:20:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Iraqi flag Since the new Iraqi flag was mentioned, the editorial cartoon in today's Washington Post is relevant. (I'm not sure if you need to be a registered user to see it.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/tolestom/ - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:43:30 -0500 From: Subject: Re: hippo bidet, Bayoman [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] today is saddam hussein's birthday. i wonder what his sons are thinking about, now that they have passed into the great beyond. gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:38:37 -0400 From: fingerpuppets Subject: [RobynHitchcockClub] The Largo Show! any fegs make this show? - ----- Forwarded message from writer_for_you ----- To: RobynHitchcockClub@yahoogroups.com From: writer_for_you Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 06:28:52 -0000 Subject: [RobynHitchcockClub] The Largo Show! It's amazing that after seeing Robyn Hitchcock more times than I can remember, he can still perform songs I've yet to hear live. After opening with a country ditty on Saturday night, he performed "52 Stations" which I'm sure I've never seen him do. Shortly after Jon Brion joined him, Robyn took to the piano and Jon programmed a drum beat and picked up the electric guitar. They broke into a great version of "The Man Who Invented Himself", made all the better by Robyn wearing a Viking helmet. And no, I had never heard that one live before either. I was slightly disappointed in the first set. Besides those two there were no older Robyn songs, except for "Listening to the Higsons" which he blended nicely with the Bee Gee's "Staying Alive." He must have been in a medley mood that evening, because he started "The Cheese Alarm" with the first verse of "Eight Miles High." Of course his monologues were hysterical and I won't even attempt to repeat them here. Though he brilliantly referred to Alfred Hitchcock as "The original Hitchcock. No relation." Well, he certainly made up for things in the second set. He opened with a long, intense version of The Beatle's "Tomorrow Never Knows." Then he played lots of old song, stating "I think I'll cover old Robyn Hitchcock songs tonight, since I'm an old Robyn Hitchcock." That set included: The President (a first), Chinese Bones, Surgery, My Wife and My Dead Wife, Uncorrected Personality Traits, Wax Doll and My Favorite Buildings (another first for me!). He ended with a great cover of "Dear Prudence" just to round things out. - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:49:13 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Thoths in Translation (Antipodean Overlay) Jon L: >>You can always tell whether a cartoonist/animator has ever played an >>actual guitar by the way they draw the spacing of the frets on the >>neck. Not surprisingly guitars come up in my drawings from time to time, and depending on what I'm doing stylistically I *have* purposefully screwed up the fret spacing. But I think I was sort of riffing on the convention of incorrectly spaced frets in the kind of naive images you're talking about above (like, I'm more likely to draw a scewily fretted guitar if it's being played by a character with three stubby fingers). Of course I really don't know what the hell I was thinking at all when I look back at the pictures anyway, but there you go. James: >>well, Kilbey sounds about as Aussie as I do Kiwi - i.e., home >>counties English with a very slight antipodean overlay. Good reason, >>too. he was born in St. Albans, Hertfordhire, only ten miles north of >>where I was born. Good to know. I don't think I've heard him talk that frequently. Except in those songs where he kind of... raps... which are, shall we say, not often among the best tracks on any given Church album. I like it when he does that faux-Dylan thing, though! Ummmm, big apologies to the three or four of you awaiting copies of Tinfoil Thoths (especially those who've already posted my trades! I suddenly ran across a few extra "unique" covers and some booklets, so now all standing orders will be filled with the "Deluxe Edition" previously thought to be "out-of-print", but it'll take me a few more days to assemble them. I'm training for a new position here at work and a few other things are eating into my schedule, but you'll get your albums soon! Speaking of Thoths and the bands thereon, and bands-without-basses... the "live version" of Rainland convened and played together for the first time ever this past Monday night. It had... been a long time since we rock and rolled. But you know what? It is ever so great to rock! Perhaps I should write a song to that effect! - -Rex, bassless but not bassless by choice... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:38:57 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: o.t.--more Pixies Looks like the Pixies just expanded their tour. I was driving by the Mesa Ampitheatre, just down the road from my house, and the announcement board out front says they're playing there on September 20th. I'm also seeing them in 3 days. Man, this is going to be great. Marc "I hope that when I die people say, 'That guy sure owed me a lot of money'." Jack Handy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:06:17 -0700 (PDT) From: anthony stokes Subject: Thanks from a lurker Thanks to Capuchin for letting me download some live Robyn last night via WinMX. Haven't a chance to listen to it yet but any addition to the collection is appreciated. Are these tracks from any particular source or date? Thanks again, Stony Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! 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