From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #129 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 7 2004 Volume 13 : Number 129 Today's Subjects: ----------------- best safety film ever ["Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" ] Re: Fegadoh [Tom Clark ] DiscLive [Tom Clark ] Frankadoh [Miles Goosens ] Re: Space alien technology from Sirius, and other things [grutness@surf4n] RE: Ooops, he did it again ["Brian Huddell" ] RE: Ooops, he did it again ["Fortissimo" ] Re: Fegadoh ["Fortissimo" ] Re: Fegadoh [Dolph Chaney ] I shouldn't laugh...but I do. ["Maximilian Lang" ] If you dare [steve ] re: Re: The big day is here! ["Marc Holden" ] RE: Lou Barlow talks to The Onion, mentions to whats-his-face ["Marc Hold] Re: Bikelifters of the world, the remake [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Fegadoh/Oarsis [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Fegadoh [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Bikelifters of the world, the remake ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Bikelifters of the world, the remake [steve ] Vinyl Countdown continued ["Rex.Broome" ] magic band + robyn = fall? [fingerpuppets ] Re: If you dare ["Jonathan Fetter" ] auditorium update [fingerpuppets ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 12:34:37 -0700 From: "Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" Subject: best safety film ever http://media.hugi.is/hahradi/fyndnar/STAPLERFAHRERKLAUSDERERSTEA-1.wmv ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 13:05:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Space alien technology from Sirius, and other things [warning: Kansan content] Eb wrote: > The Entities arranged for this birth weight as a > reminder of our night together in Bergisch Gladbach, > Germany, July 14, 7/14. > [pins] > Leni was born under the light of the Full Moon of > the magical month of May, at 3:21 am, May 4, 2004. I was going to say that's almost a 10 month pregnancy (which I know does happen), but then I realized if this fucking wingnut was going around claiming to be my father, I'd cling to the inside of my mother's womb as long as humanly possible. and even then I'm not sure I'd come out. ===== "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 15:35:28 -0400 From: Johnathan Vail Subject: For all you Belle & Sebastian nuts Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:49:47 -0700 From: "The Mammal Brain" 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)... I don't suppose anyone recorded this since I got this digest the day after it happened... It looks like they are a month behind or so on their archive so I might be able to wait a month. jv <-- Belle & Sebastian nut ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 13:49:51 -0700 From: "Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" Subject: RE: For all you Belle & Sebastian nuts > I don't suppose anyone recorded this since I got this digest the day > after it happened... It looks like they are a month behind or so on > their archive so I might be able to wait a month. I didn't record it as I'm completely inept at that sort of thing, but it was a fun little performance. Highlight was a impromptu cover of "Teenage Kicks". Last night's show at the Paramount was really great. Each time I've seen them they have shown marked improvement as a live band. I'd even say they kicked ass last night in so far as a band like Belle and Sebastian can kick ass. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:02:02 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Fegadoh Jeff D: >>Some might say >>We will laugh at him either way >>Some might say >>All that cocaine just didn't pay Dammit. Dammit. Dammit. I was certain that all that time I was stuck listening to and liking Oasis despite knowing they were mediocre and loathesome was well and truly behind me. But this little snide parody of some lyrics that sucked to begin with *makes me want to listen to that album* and start hating myself all over again. Thank Christ I have this Mission of Burma album sitting right here... that should sort me out, huh? Lou Barlow aspires to be the new Robyn, eh? I guess I can see it. Robyn's deal is not too bad. Always working, mostly playing solo and perfectly self-sufficient in that idiom, but with a deep enough "rock" catalog that he can do his own songs with pickup bands fairly readily. Who would be in an analagous point career-wise right now? John Doe? Eb, I haven't heard universally negative things about Flaming Lips at Coachella, other then their set being short due to tech problems (probably related to Coyne needing to crowd surf inside a thirty-foot beachball from space). I can confirm from the live disc of the Pixies' set just passed to me by an attendee that they did, indeed, rock, though. I mean, they sound really, really good. And committed to the material! I wonder if Frank Frances and Kim are spending a lot of time looking at themselves in their dressing room mirrors and thinking "The last thirteen years have been a lie, a lie!". But mostly I hope Joey Santiago is looking into his and thinking "I am the motherfucking man, and I rock like no other", because that is true. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 15:08:45 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Fegadoh on 5/6/04 3:02 PM, Rex.Broome at Rex.Broome@preferredmedia.com wrote: > But mostly I hope Joey Santiago is looking into his and thinking "I am the > motherfucking man, and I rock like no other", because that is true. Halleluiah Brother!! - -tc, awaiting his Coachella disc... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 15:18:53 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: DiscLive Speaking of the Pixies CD's, I just checked disclive.com and they have the running totals for the number of CD's sold: 15 shows, 1,000 discs per show, $25 per disc. So far they've sold 14,140 CD's for a total of $353,500. Even with overhead, that's not a bad side business. - -tc p.s. That German safety film was fucking hilarious. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:26:57 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Frankadoh Rex: >I wonder if Frank Frances and Kim are spending a lot of time >looking at themselves in their dressing room mirrors and >thinking "The last thirteen years have been a lie, a lie!". I hope to God not, because FRANK BLACK and TEENAGER OF THE YEAR rule as much as any Pixies album. Which is to say, totally. Also, the most fiercely rocking show we saw last year was FB & the Catholics at the Exit/In, with Frank distilling the Catholics albums for their very best songs and mixing them in with a heapin' helpin' o' Pixies. In my two decades of show-going, I have *never* seen anything more electric than this packed room of people rocking out to close-range versions of "Gouge Away" and "Where Is My Mind." I saw the Pixies in '91 (very good, but way too short), and I've got tickets for the Oct. 14 show in Atlanta, but the best the Pixies can do at the Fabulous Fox Theatre is equal that FB show from last year. Just thinking about it even now makes my ears ring and puts a goofy smile on my face. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 10:32:50 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: Space alien technology from Sirius, and other things >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 they say - May the Fourth be with you. well, it convinces me. James (who's not saying what it convinces him *of*) NP - "Won't get fooled again",by The 'oo (a possible candidate for a new Iraqi national anthem?) - -- 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, 6 May 2004 17:56:48 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Ooops, he did it again Dave blatzy blatzman: > I wanted everyone to know that Brian has done it again with a > track called Cavalier... A handful of fegs have already heard this song and at least a couple of them didn't like it much, so Blatzy's praise, flattering as it is, should be taken with a grain of salt. As should any possible association between my stuff and Clay Aiken's ;-) But many many thanks, Dave! +brian in New Orleans ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:12:41 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: RE: Ooops, he did it again On Thu, 6 May 2004 17:56:48 -0500, "Brian Huddell" said: > Dave blatzy blatzman: > > > I wanted everyone to know that Brian has done it again with a > > track called Cavalier... > > A handful of fegs have already heard this song and at least a couple of > them > didn't like it much, so Blatzy's praise, flattering as it is, should be > taken with a grain of salt. Me, I found myself humming something earlier today, and realizing that the words to it went "time will tell, but time will lie"... Count me in the pro-"Cavalier" camp (even if I'm not quite sure if I got the last line right...silly me & lyrics...). np: Mission of Burma - now starring Peter Prescott as "The Enthusiast"... - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree :: what they are made of, where they come from, or how often :: they should appear. :: --Lemony Snicket ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:16:06 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Fegadoh On Thu, 6 May 2004 15:02:02 -0700, "Rex.Broome" said: > Lou Barlow aspires to be the new Robyn, eh? I guess I can see it. > Robyn's deal is not too bad. Always working, mostly playing solo and > perfectly self-sufficient in that idiom, but with a deep enough "rock" > catalog that he can do his own songs with pickup bands fairly readily. > Who would be in an analagous point career-wise right now? John Doe? John Wesley Harding? (Who has a novel out apparently, under his real name Wesley Stace.) Never really got into Sebadoh - I liked some of their stuff okay, but they never quite did it for me. Weird - every RIYL search doohickey in the universe tells me I *should* like 'em more. But mostly I hope Joey Santiago is > looking into his and thinking "I am the motherfucking man, and I rock > like no other", because that is true. Excellent stuff - and proves that you don't need to play a bazillion notes to be a kickass lead guitar player. You guys are nearly convincing me to overcome my usual aversion to live recordings... - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Solipsism is its own reward :: :: --Crow T. Robot ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 19:19:49 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: Fegadoh At 05:02 PM 5/6/2004, Rexy wrote: >Lou Barlow aspires to be the new Robyn, eh? I guess I can see >it. Robyn's deal is not too bad. Always working, mostly playing solo and >perfectly self-sufficient in that idiom, but with a deep enough "rock" >catalog that he can do his own songs with pickup bands fairly >readily. Who would be in an analagous point career-wise right now? John >Doe? Mark Eitzel did this exact thing in his 2003 show in Chicago -- local pickup band as backing musicians. I would imagine Richard Thompson could do that if he wanted; he's just *slightly* higher-profile in such a way that he has a set of musicians who stay with him. Others? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 21:49:34 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: I shouldn't laugh...but I do. http://www.945thehawk.com/freebeer03.shtml _________________________________________________________________ Mothers Day is May 9. Make it special with great ideas from the Mothers Day Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04mothersday.armx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 23:37:27 -0500 From: steve Subject: If you dare http://tinyurl.com/28m3a - - Steve __________ LONDON - U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey, Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal human rights envoy to Iraq said Wednesday. - Sue Leman, AP, 05/04/2004 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 22:28:41 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: re: Re: The big day is here! Eb posted: >Three seemingly universal Coachella opinions: 1) The Cure sucked >2) The Flaming Lips sucked 3) The Pixies ruled 1) yes 2) not true, but not their best either 3) Absolutely the best of the weekend 4) don't forget that Kraftwerk stunned, too Later, Marc To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing." This is truth, to me. Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 23:04:00 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: RE: Lou Barlow talks to The Onion, mentions to whats-his-face Michael B. said: > 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. Remember that Robyn only announced that he was leaving the Soft Boys (2003) in mid-March, after Matthew had already left the band. Before Robyn had said anything, Matthew had already told me in February that "they didn't hang out socially, the songs were generally not "group efforts", and Robyn would probably do quite well regardless of the band he played with" (approximate quote). Morris and Kimberley played Robyn's birthday show a few days later, but Matthew declined to appear. He also did not play at the final Soft Boys show in Paris the following week. About a week later, Robyn announced he was leaving the band. I still kind of feel like Robyn left the band after finding out that the band was coming apart. Anyway, the band hadn't been quite the same after Ringo walked out. Chatter at you soon, Marc I don't pretend to have all the answers. I don't pretend to even know what the questions are. Hey, where am I? Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 14:37:05 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Bikelifters of the world, the remake - --On Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2004 23:49 Uhr -0400 "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: >> >> my bike was stolen tonight :-( > > Severe bummer. Hope you get it back in the right shape. I don't expect to. Fortunately my bike dealer had a model of my bike on stock so that I can pick up a replacement today ... along with a new lock that's suppoed to be safe(r), the Abus Granit X-Plus 54: or - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 08:46:08 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: I shouldn't laugh...but I do. > http://www.945thehawk.com/freebeer03.shtml That's Fox Five Atlanta, Baby! We've got an uncompressed version of it on the server at work. I shouldn't laugh, either, but when a co-worker has that gasping sound firing every time he gets an instant message, it's hard not to. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 05:57:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Fegadoh/Oarsis "Rex.Broome" wrote: > Jeff D: > >>Some might say > >>We will laugh at him either way > >>Some might say > >>All that cocaine just didn't pay > > Dammit. Dammit. Dammit. I was certain that all that > time I was stuck listening to and liking Oasis despite > knowing they were mediocre and loathesome was well and > truly behind me. But this little snide parody of some > lyrics that sucked to begin with *makes me want to listen > to that album* and start hating myself all over again. I am very sorry. SMS was actually the only Oasis song I sort of liked, which is why it probably came to mind. ===== "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: Fri, 7 May 2004 06:04:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Fegadoh Fortissimo wrote: > "Rex.Broome" said: > > Lou Barlow aspires to be the new Robyn, eh? I guess I > > can see it. Robyn's deal is not too bad. Always > > working, mostly playing solo and perfectly self- > > sufficient in that idiom, but with a deep enough "rock" > > catalog that he can do his own songs with pickup bands > > fairly readily. Who would be in an analagous point > > career-wise right now? > > John Wesley Harding? (Who has a novel out apparently, > under his real name Wesley Stace.) I think it's actually due out this fall. Harding, of course, also gets dismissed as just being a Costello clone just as Hitchcock does with Barrett, and while both obvious are similar to their antecedents, a lot of that is overblown by their natural vocal similarities. > > But mostly I hope Joey Santiago is looking into his > > and thinking "I am the motherfucking man, and I rock > > like no other", because that is true. > > Excellent stuff - and proves that you don't need to play > a bazillion notes to be a kickass lead guitar player. I can't think of a truly kickass lead guitarist that does play a bazillion notes, actually. The jackoffs who do that are just treating music like it's a track meet. ===== "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: Fri, 07 May 2004 08:35:28 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Bikelifters of the world, the remake Tom Clark wrote: > > How much power does that produce? About a kilowatt, at rated power. The generator's rated at nearly 2kW. Not a bad machine to install, and remarkably cheap. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 06:29:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: If you dare steve wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/28m3a From the site's first page: "Conservative American singles, are you frustrated with huge mainstream dating sites? Tired of sifting through thousands of profiles only to find liberals that don't really share your viewpoints on important issues?" Finally, an admission from conservatives that the mainstream is far more liberal that they are (even it isn't all that liberal itself!) ===== "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: Fri, 7 May 2004 08:49:41 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Bikelifters of the world, the remake >> Severe bummer. Hope you get it back in the right shape. On May 7, 2004, at 7:37 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > I don't expect to. Fortunately my bike dealer had a model of my bike > on stock so that I can pick up a replacement today ... along with a > new lock that's suppoed to be safe(r), the Abus Granit X-Plus 54 Here's a little piece from ATC on how all bikes in Amsterdam (I think it was) ultimately weigh 60 pounds. The link is down the page a bit. - - Steve __________ George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God. - Lt. General William G. "Jerry" Boykin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 09:58:23 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Vinyl Countdown continued I've just been reminded of yet another never-on-CD item I'd love to have in digital form: Volcano Suns, Bright Orange Years. Anyone? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 13:37:38 -0400 From: fingerpuppets Subject: magic band + robyn = fall? was catching up on the wfmu archives this afternoon. gary lucas was a guest, along with lutist josef van wissem, on irene trudell's show this past monday and, while talking to her about the magic band's reunion tour, mentioned that he had just been in contact with robyn about setting up some shows in north america in the autumn. nothing definite now, of course, but something to keep an eye out for. you can listen to the show at in both realaudio and 96kbps stereo mp3 (the mp3 archive is only the most recent show so that will disappear monday afternoon). it's the may 3rd program which starts with the tail end of a michael hurley session (woo!). josef and gary start around the 72 minute mark. woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 13:37:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: If you dare > From the site's first page: > "Conservative American singles, are you frustrated with > huge mainstream dating sites? =Nobody likes you, everybody hates you. >Tired of sifting through > thousands of profiles only to find liberals that don't > really share your viewpoints on important issues?" =Already eaten worms? Then try our dating service. The cultural divide yawns wider (but doesn't fall asleep). Jon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 16:03:20 -0400 From: fingerpuppets Subject: auditorium update from : Robyn will be playing at the Resonance Radio party at The Conway Hall, London WC1, on Saturday May 15th for 1/2 an hour around 9:30. _______________________________________________________________ The film A Slipping Down Life opens on May 14th. It stars Guy Pearce and Lili Taylor and is directed by Toni Kalem. Pearce plays a rock singer and performs Robyn's 'Elizabeth Jade'. This song, and "You've Got A Sweet Mouth On You, Baby", also sung by Pearce, appear on the soundtrack album forthcoming from Commotion Records. woj ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #129 ********************************