From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #128 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, May 6 2004 Volume 13 : Number 128 Today's Subjects: ----------------- For all you Belle & Sebastian nuts ["The Mammal Brain" ] Re: All your poseurs are belong to us [Steve Talkowski ] that Gastr del Sol website I mentioned earlier... ["Natalie Jane" ] Re: The big day is here! [Tom Clark ] Fidelity compare-and-contrast extravaganza ["Rex.Broome" ] Bikelifters of the world, the remake [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Bikelifters of the world, the remake ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Ooops, he did it again [steve ] Re: All your poseurs are belong to us [Jeff Dwarf ] Lou Barlow talks to The Onion, mentions to whats-his-face [Jeff Dwarf ] Space alien technology from Sirius, and other things [warning: Kansan content] [Eb Subject: For all you Belle & Sebastian nuts they're scheduled to perform live on KEXP in about 15 minutes' time. . their "uncompressed stream" supposedly sounds better than the FM broadcast (i've never heard it, 'cause i don't have the bandwidth)... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:53:37 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: All your poseurs are belong to us On May 5, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > Oasis frontman 'beaten up by computer geeks' Since when are computer "salesmen" and real estate "agents" equated with geeks? It's an insult to all of us true computer geeks out there. - -Steve - -- Steve Talkowski Animation Director / Hornet Inc. 213 West 35th St. Suite 605 New York, NY 10001 http://www.hornetinc.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:15:11 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: All your poseurs are belong to us On May 5, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Tom Clark wrote: >> Oasis frontman 'beaten up by computer geeks' Steve replied: >Since when are computer "salesmen" and real estate "agents" equated >with geeks? >It's an insult to all of us true computer geeks out there. How about software salesmen? My best friend is Director of Sales for a software company. Michael B. NP Neutral Milk Hotel - "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 12:48:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: RE: All your poseurs are belong to us On Wed, 5 May 2004, Bachman, Michael wrote: > Steve replied: > >Since when are computer "salesmen" and real estate "agents" equated > >with geeks? > >It's an insult to all of us true computer geeks out there. > > How about software salesmen? My best friend is Director of Sales for a > software company. Nope. If you're in the Sales division, you're not a geek, you're a "drone". The one exception would be the wily, fly-by-night "sales engineer" who has to hack the product at every customer location in order to pretend it works as the drones advertised. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 12:56:07 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: that Gastr del Sol website I mentioned earlier... I finished it over the weekend... sans handwriting font, alas, but I'm still pretty pleased with it. http://home.earthlink.net/~gnat72/gastr.html It still needs some tweaking in the visuals/layout department, so any advice from you web-design nerds out there would be appreciated. Also, if anyone, by any remote chance, has any photos of the band, please let me know. I'm wondering if they banned cameras from their shows, because I haven't been able to find any photographic evidence of their existence, besides the photo that's already on my site. anyway, n. _________________________________________________________________ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlb&pgmarket=en-us/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:24:25 -0700 From: Eb Subject: The big day is here! [favorite line: "That is the kind of guy I am: I have 'Cesarean sections', so that the mothers of my children won't have to."] Early Tuesday morning, at about 3:21 am, May 4, 2004, Our Lady Heidi Klum gave birth to Leni in New York City. Heidi is extremely happy with our daughter, who sports long hair already, the way that both Heidi and I had long, dark hair, when we were born. Fans from all over the World have flooded the English and German Forums of Empress Heidi's official Web site http://www.heidiklum.com with congratulatory messages. On Monday evening Sister Dina and I were at our two daughters' high school here in suburban northwest Houston for their swimteam awards at the end of the school year. Our friend from Hong Kong (HK) was there with her two daughters, too. Leaving for home, I looked up and saw the Full Moon of May. I told Dina that two years ago the Full Moon of May had fallen on August 25, 2002, the day that Claudia Schiffer was married. On that day we were with our friends from Hong Kong (HK) again and had dinner at the Hong Kong Cafe (HK Cafe), an early indication of my wife's new married name, Heidi Klum Kaffes (HK Kaffes; "Kaffes" means "coffee" in Greek). We then visited the Hong Kong (HK) supermarket with our friends. On that day Heidi Klum (HK) was in the Orient, in Tokyo, for the MTV Japan Music Awards TV presentation. Last year the Full Moon of May took place during the night of May 15 to 16, 2003, accompanied by a spectacular lunar eclipse. On May 15 I became sick with a stomach virus. I had a troublesome night, but as soon as the lunar eclipse was over, I recovered. My illness can be verified, because I took a rare day off from work on May 16. On May 16, 2003, Mark McCormack, the head of IMG, Heidi's modeling agency, died at 72. McCormack is a legend and the Tom Cruise movie "Jerry McGuire" is based on his career. He is credited with the creation of the very lucrative modern sports and celebrity compensation schemes and IMG is the top agency in the World, representing just every about every major celebrity, from No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods to Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher to the top supermodels Heidi, Gisele Buendchen, and Tyra Banks. McCormack died upon the lunar eclipse of May 2003, but I was healed: Yin and Yang. Heidi had our baby by natural childbirth. This was ensured by me having a "Cesarean section" on February 26, 2004: on that day I had a hernia repair operation in my left pubic area, as I detail in my groundbreaking message "Kansan's three scars" of April 29, 2004. I, as the symbolic Czar Nicholas III, am a "Caesar": Czar = Caesar in Russian. Any incision on my august body is a "Cesarian section". Dina, too, delivered our two daughters by natural childbirth. I had a "Cesarean section" for them in February 1982, a varicocelectomy, a minor operation in my left pubic area. That is the kind of guy I am: I have "Cesarean sections", so that the mothers of my children won't have to. (I myself, "Caesar Nicholas", was born through a Cesarean section on December 25, 1952. The first Caesar, Julius Caesar, was born through a Cesarian section, too, according to tradition, giving his name to the procedure.) Leni was born during the Full Moon of May, marking the Birthday of the Buddha. In May 1998 the Full Moon of May saw the first hydrogen bomb explosion by India, where the Buddha was born. Leni was born about nine months, the length of a pregnacy, after August 6, the anniversary of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan (1945). These two massive explosions in Asia are Leni's "stars in the East": "Behold, there came wise men (the Magi) from the East to Jerusalem, saying, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East, and are come to worship Him'." (Matthew 2:1-2) My own "star in the East" was the first hydrogen bomb explosion by New Atlantis, aka the USA, in the Pacific in November 1952, just before my birth. The Three Magi are buried, according to tradition, in the Dom, the Cathedral of Cologne, near Archangel Heidi's hometown, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. The remains of the Magi had been recovered from Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) by St. Helena, little Leni's namesake. Leni Kaffes Klum was born on a Tuesday, the day dedicated by the ancients to the God Mars. Leni's miraculous conception was the result of space alien technology from Sirius and, then, the Red Planet, Mars. Most significantly, CNN brought back the beautiful redhead Heidi Collins (real name: Heidoula Nikolaou, i.e., "Little Caress, daughter and wife of Nicholas") to anchor Tuesday's morning news. Redhead Heidi Collins presided over the news, while Empress Heidi Klum was breastfeeding little Leni, born on Tuesday, the day dedicated to the Red Planet Mars, on the Full Moon of May, the Birthday of the Buddha. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 14:57:40 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: The big day is here! on 5/5/04 2:24 PM, Eb at elbroome@earthlink.net wrote: > > Early Tuesday morning, at about 3:21 am, May 4, 2004, Our Lady > Heidi Klum > gave birth to Leni in New York City. > > Heidi is extremely happy with our daughter, who sports long hair > already, > the way that both Heidi and I had long, dark hair, when we were born. > Do people fuck with this guy on whatever list this comes from? I'd love to see what it's like to occasionally jab him with the pointed stick of reality... - -tc, born through natural childbirth, but I have been known to drop an atomic bomb of sorts after drinking kaffe... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:59:57 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Fidelity compare-and-contrast extravaganza Marc H: >>I agree that what they've done with the 13th Floor >>Elevators releases is just sad. I don't have the "best of" rip-off, but did >>pick up "The Magic of the Pyramids", "The 1966-1967 Unreleased Masters >>Collection (3 CD)", and "Another Dimension", which is just another release >>of the 1966 Avalon Ballroom bootleg. In mild defense of Collectables, the Charlie/Decal releases of the "proper" Elevators records are pretty attrocious as well, and I think still the only versions available. I have side-by-sided "You're Gonna Miss Me" from the album with the version from the Nuggets box set, and whoa nelly, there's a bit of difference. Not to mention that the word "Elevators" is actually spelled incorrectly on the spine to one, but not all, of the albums. Then again, isn't the word "collectable" a misspelling in and of itself? James: >>All this talk about digitising cassettes and vinyl... what sort of >>software do you use? (I'm talking to Mac users here) I'm sure this makes me either un- or ultra-cool depending on who you ask, but I just use a really old demo version of ProTools which has never given me a lick of trouble. It helps that my computer is antiquated enough to have an analogue audio input jack. Not even gonna tell you what I use for an amp (unless'n you ask all nice-like) but my results are pretty fair, to my ears (better than some boots when I've compared versions of the same tracks). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:14:54 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: The big day is here! > Do people fuck with this guy on whatever list this comes from? I'd > love to > see what it's like to occasionally jab him with the pointed stick of > reality... Responses seem to take two forms, neither of which is optimal: 1) Shallow, "get help, you fuckin' nutter"-type insults which offer no constructive counterargument. 2) Pandering, softball, fake-supportive questions, which voyeurs pose so they can privately snicker at the responses. Except Kansan is far, far too bonkers to realize he's being dicked with, so he takes the questions at face value and views the questioners as "disciples seeking regal enlightenment." There's also one particularly obnoxious troll type who copycats Kansan's style, and attempts to post similar testimonies about the cosmic importance of *the Strokes*. Blecch. Three seemingly universal Coachella opinions: 1) The Cure sucked 2) The Flaming Lips sucked 3) The Pixies ruled Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 00:35:57 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Bikelifters of the world, the remake Hi, my bike was stolen tonight :-( I had properly locked it to a bike stand with a Trelock Titan Lite. I would never have expected it to get stolen with that, but there you go. It was about three years old, a Fahrrad Manufaktur T600: At least I had it insured (my last one was stolen when I had no insurance), but still there's the sentimental value ... I'm depressed. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 23:30:05 EDT From: BLATZMAN@aol.com Subject: Ooops, he did it again Brian Huddell has done it to me again. After falling in love with Touch You Natalie Jane, I was curious, so I asked for more tracks... And the results were pretty darned thrilling. I wanted everyone to know that Brian has done it again with a track called Cavalier... It's just wonderful... I say this to encourage anyone who also loved Natalie Jane to bother him for his other demos... It's just a great, well written song. When I listen to it I get pissed off just thinking about that stupid Julian Cope CD Skellington that I bought, and how crazy the world is where Julian Cope can put out a horrendous turd and people pay for it, and Brian writes this great song and it goes unnoticed... If I were signing people to a record company I would Sign the guy right now and send him in to the studio with Todd Rundgren. That's right, that is the man I would choose for Brian's project, and you know what? He'd come out with a CD that kicked the shit out of half the CDs in my collection... that's cause, I believe, Brian has "it"... the one thing that all the rest of us wish we had. I can't put my finger on it but it's just there. And I say it based upon the fact that I have fallen in love with 2 of the 5 songs of his that I've heard. For me, that's just unheard of. I've heard so many bad demos from crap LA bands for years and years and nothing, and I mean nothing has ever sounded as vibrant and passionate as Natalie Jane and Cavalier. I know my tastes in music would make some of you cringe, Brian included, (I bought the Clay Aiken CD!!!!), but we all have common ground here and i know I'm not the only one who would love this tune... Get your hands on it if you're interested!!! I am now looking forward to more music from Matt Sewell... And Brian Nupp, if you're reading, I couldn't get anything to work on your website which is a total drag cause I wanted to hear more!!! Great Job Brian, thanks for sharing. Dave blatzy blatzman currently listening to this in the car stereo: Brian Huddell- demos Matt Sewell, Brian Huddell, Dolph, & Brian Nupp (Tinfoil Collection) Clay Aiken Echo & The Bunnymen "Flowers" Aztec Camera "Frestonia" Steven Duffy & The Lilac time- anything I can get my hands on Annie Lenox - Bare ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 22:48:01 -0500 From: steve Subject: For HomeFegs - - Steve __________ What's annoying is that America is not content to be the world's |ber-bully. It also wants to be loved. It's like Bogart and Peter Lorre in The Maltese Falcon. "When you're slapped," the U.S. sneers, "you'll take it and like it." - Steve Burgess, Canadian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 23:49:16 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Bikelifters of the world, the remake Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > my bike was stolen tonight :-( Severe bummer. Hope you get it back in the right shape. I, apropos nothing, built a wind turbine in downtown Toronto today for Steve "Cyborg" Mann: Stewart (warning: cute baby bunny picture on that page too) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 23:54:34 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: For HomeFegs steve wrote: > > But does it click? And I bet it's fucked on stairs. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 23:18:15 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Ooops, he did it again On May 5, 2004, at 10:30 PM, BLATZMAN@aol.com wrote: > Steven Duffy & The Lilac time- anything I can get my hands on Mr. Duffy doesn't have that vulgar v in his first name. ;) A couple of interesting rare/live comps can be found on eBay. And everybody should have the great & LOVE FOR ALL, about half of which was produced by Animal Jesus. The two Duffy albums are much harder edged than the Lilac Time material. - - Steve __________ Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today. - Mary Jo Foley, eWeek, 04/30/2004 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 05:57:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: All your poseurs are belong to us Tom Clark wrote: > Oasis frontman 'beaten up by computer geeks' > > Some might say We will laugh at him either way Some might say All that cocaine just didn't pay ===== "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: Thu, 6 May 2004 06:23:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Lou Barlow talks to The Onion, mentions to whats-his-face http://www.theonionavclub.com/feature/index.php?issue=4018 He's also back on speaking terms with that Mascis guy; here's the relevant section: O: Is it worth the headache, then, being in a band? LB: Not right now, no. I think in the past it's totally been worth it, but right now... I'm going solo for a reason. [Laughs.] Sebadoh was on tour with The Flaming Lips years ago, and Robyn Hitchcock was on that tour, and he was like, "You know, at some point, you just get too old to have a band. It just gets too hard." Of course, a year later he was back playing with The Soft Boys. [Laughs.] Things go in cycles, you know? I'm definitely at the part of the cycle right now that he was speaking of. And for me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear. O: Having been at it for so long, are you amused when you see young musicians starting to deal with those questions about how much to court the mainstream? LB: Yeah. [Laughs.] It really does. If I were to give advice to anybody like that, I would tell them, "Do not sign to Interscope Records right now." [Laughs.] "That is a mistake. You may never sell more than 150,000 copies, and even if you do break into the big time and sell 500,000, you will still be nobody in the big picture of those labels. You will never have a number-one hit. Do not for a minute entertain the idea that you are going to become a household name, because it's not going to happen. Even The Strokes, who are huge, they're not a household name, you know? Only among pockets of hipster kids. It just happens to be a pretty big country, with a lot of pockets of hipster kids. The level that big labels want everybody to reach, very few are going to reach that. And you really don't want to reach it anyway. Why try?" O: Was there a point where you realized that you were going to have to settle for a Robyn Hitchcock kind of career, where some people will always know who you are and like what you do, but you'll never really break through? LB: I haven't had that moment yet. [Laughs.] I really don't know what level I'm at. I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had. And whoever's left, they're pretty much divided in their loyalties to my material. At this point, I'm trying to figure out a way to make it to where Robyn is, where I have some kind of... I wouldn't say security, necessarily, because I'm sure Robyn would take issue with that, but at this point, I don't feel... I really don't know what's going on. ===== "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: Thu, 6 May 2004 10:48:39 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Lou Barlow talks to The Onion, mentions to whats-his-face >O: Is it worth the headache, then, being in a band? >LB: Not right now, no. I think in the past it's totally >been worth it, but right now... I'm going solo for a >reason. [Laughs.] Sebadoh was on tour with The Flaming Lips >years ago, and Robyn Hitchcock was on that tour, and he was >like, "You know, at some point, you just get too old to >have a band. It just gets too hard." Of course, a year >later he was back playing with The Soft Boys. [Laughs.] Robyn was saying this to Lou even before the SB's got back together? Hmm, makes sense the reunion only lasted 2 years then. Robyn also mentioned something similar about the tiring aspect of touring with a band and the responsibilities after the reunion broke up. I wonder if this means that Robyn will never tour with the SB's or The Egyptians again? I hope that won't be the case. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 08:21:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: Lou Barlow talks to The Onion, mentions to whats-his-face "Bachman, Michael" wrote: > >O: Is it worth the headache, then, being in a band? > > >LB: [pins] and Robyn Hitchcock was on that tour, and he > >was like, "You know, at some point, you just get too > >old to have a band. It just gets too hard." Of course, > >a year later he was back playing with The Soft Boys. > >[Laughs.] > > Robyn was saying this to Lou even before the SB's got > back together? Hmm, makes sense the reunion only lasted > 2 years then. Robyn also mentioned something similar > about the tiring aspect of touring with a band and the > responsibilities after the reunion broke up. He said it in several interviews around that time as well. > I wonder if this means that Robyn will never tour with > the SB's or The Egyptians again? I hope that won't be the > case. I think it's probably all cyclical, like Barlow says later on. Not necessarily The Soft Boys or The Egyptians, but I can easily see him going back and forth between touring solo and with some sort of band (probably with Morris and/or Kimberley being frequent participants; Matthew, who knows, and I guess he and Andy would have to have some sort of reconciliation first before that would happen). Or doing what it sounds like Jay Farrar was doing, having a band open for him then back him. Oh wait, he's done that last time with Tim Keegan et al. ===== "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: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:26:26 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Bikelifters of the world, the remake on 5/5/04 8:49 PM, Stewart C. Russell at scruss@sympatico.ca wrote: > I, apropos nothing, built a wind turbine in downtown Toronto today for > Steve "Cyborg" Mann: How much power does that produce? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:50:26 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Space alien technology from Sirius, and other things [warning: Kansan content] My wife, Heidi Klum, has announced that the weight at birth of our first daughter Leni was 7 pounds and 14 ounces: http://www.heidiklum.com/news/default.htm The Entities arranged for this birth weight as a reminder of our night together in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, July 14, 7/14. Back then, under the light of the Full Moon, the most perfect woman (Heidi) and the most perfect man (I, Dr. Nicholas A. Kaffes) met to advance humanity, leading to the conception of little Leni. July 14 also happens to be Bastille Day, the anniversary of the Great French Revolution of 1789, when humanity took another major step upwards. Leni was born under the light of the Full Moon of the magical month of May, at 3:21 am, May 4, 2004. She was born at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, at 100 East 77th Street. The number 77 is a reminder of the W. 77th Meridian passing through Washington, DC, the capital of New Atlantis, aka the USA. The number 100 is the perfect square of the perfect number 10: A perfect 10 (Heidi) came together with another perfect 10 (me) to bring forth Leni. Elenitsa was born on May 4, 23 days after April 11, the Easter Sunday wedding of her parents, Holy Roman Empress Adelheid II and Czar Nicholas III. As fans of author Robert Anton Wilson know, the number 23 corresponds to the number of human chromosome pairs and to July 23, the central day of the Dog Days of Summer, when Sirius, the Dog Star, the brightest fixed star in the sky, rises with our Sun. July 23 also happened to be the Roman feast day of Neptunalia, honoring the God Neptune, or Poseidon, the father of the Kings of the legendary lost continent of Atlantis. Erzherzogin Helene, Archduchess of the Holy Roman Empire, is the result of an eugenic operation, using space alien technology from Sirius, to realize the dream of New Atlantis, a new and improved humanity. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #128 ********************************