From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #133 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, May 12 2004 Volume 13 : Number 133 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Gram/Cap'n B. (0% Mark E. Smith Content) ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Gram/Cap'n B. (0% Mark E. Smith Content) [Glen Uber ] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] A Real Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Trust me, I know what I'm doing ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Quick EN comments (Blue Man Group, eat yer heart out) [The Great Quai] Re: He's not just an incompetent narcissistic idiot...[warning 100% politcal screeching] [steve ] Re: He's not just an incompetent narcissistic idiot...[warning 100% religious screeching] [] Re: Chris Cunningham freaks me out too [Aaron Mandel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:02:30 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Gram/Cap'n B. (0% Mark E. Smith Content) From Michael Bachman: >>Our friends at Sin City are putting together a Gram Parsons tribute concert on July >>9th at the Santa Barbara Bowl and July 10th at the Universal Amphitheatre in LA. Ummm... this looks pretty good! Can't think of a single person I know who'd accompany me to it, though. Jeffrey: >>but I'm also imagining Robyn singing the0 >>Captain's parts...that would be an interesting concept! He does a pretty credible "Big Eyed Beans from Venus"... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:51:00 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Gram/Cap'n B. (0% Mark E. Smith Content) On May 11, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Rex.Broome wrote: > From Michael Bachman: >>> Our friends at Sin City are putting together a Gram Parsons tribute >>> concert on July >>> 9th at the Santa Barbara Bowl and July 10th at the Universal >>> Amphitheatre in LA. > > Ummm... this looks pretty good! Can't think of a single person I know > who'd accompany me to it, though. > Glen Uber and I would go with you! - -tc p.s. The Fall cancelled their west coast tour. Was the thought of playing lowly San Jose that abysmal? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:21:50 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Gram/Cap'n B. (0% Mark E. Smith Content) On May 11, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > Glen Uber and I would go with you! Hell yes! I wouldn't think twice about making the drive from Grand Junction for that. Cheers! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:58:30 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Gram/Cap'n B. (0% Mark E. Smith Content) On May 11, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Tom Clark wrote: >> Glen Uber and I would go with you! Glen Uber wrote back: >Hell yes! I wouldn't think twice about making the drive from Grand >Junction for that. I would go as well if it was closer. Hmmmm, maybe I'll check out airline costs from Detroit. They should take it on tour to some central and eastern cities. Michael B. (Gram fan since 1974) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:12:35 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Gram/Cap'n B. (0% Mark E. Smith Content) On May 11, 2004, at 1:58 PM, Bachman, Michael wrote: > I would go as well if it was closer. Hmmmm, maybe I'll check out > airline costs from Detroit. They should take it on tour to some central > and eastern cities. If you can get to Western Colorado, Southeast Utah or Las Vegas, you could ride with me. Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:55:43 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Quick EN comments (Blue Man Group, eat yer heart out) By the way, I saw Einsturzende Neubauten on Saturday night. I'm a bit sick -- for the first time in over two years! -- so I haven't been real motivated to write up a review to fling at the Feglist brickwall. So, with the concert no longer fresh in mind, these loose comments won't be structured very well. But...the show was quite good. Mostly, we just care about the found instruments, right? OK, well, "instruments" used included air-compressor hose + pitched plastic pipes, metal wheel rims, transistor radio, various other bits of metal percussion and, most amusing of all, a two-tier tray with cut-off Ocean Spray bottles and things haphazardly taped in place, spinning on an old turntable (the air compressor nozzle was aimed into the spinning bottle openings for random sounds). Nothing involving pyrotechnics, sparks, flames, etc., but of course we're living in a post-Great White age now. No opening band. Leader Blixa Bargeld began the set with four or five minutes of surprisingly charming "opening remarks" -- I can't recall another show I've seen which started quite like that. He reminisced about the band's early shows in L.A., and the various clashes they had with puzzled club owners. That sort of thing. Went on for quite awhile, and exchanged shout-outs with a few old-time fans who had seen the past shows in question. With Einsturzende Neubauten, my general surface impression is...the louder and more dissonant the song is, the *better* it is. ;) Even if I liked a few of the quiet pieces on the Silence Is Sexy album quite a bit. The Saturday-night set was frustratingly muted at times, but the cut-loose moments were still hair-raising. I've only seen EN once before (early '90s), and I didn't recall Blixa's unusual ability to *scream*. He has this thin, parched, primal howl which he can pull out during especially cathartic moments, and it just doesn't sound *human*. Wow. There were six members onstage, who rotated their positions with changing pieces. It seemed like two of the members were younger additions, whereas the other four were the standard, established personnel. I don't believe Blixa "played" anything all night, beyond twisting the dial on a crappy transistor radio. He might have picked up the compressor hose a few times. One of the younger guys was in the back at the right, manipulating some high-tech electronic equipment, but all other instrumentation was fairly organic and "hands-on." One segment was a so-called "floor piece," where all the members sat in line at the front of the stage and banged on various small metal items - -- I enjoyed that a lot, and wished to have a better view of their actions. Their "song" structures can be a bit pedestrian, and that's where I get a bit grumpy about this band. Too many songs have the same dull "minor chord for eight beats/adjacent chord for another eight beats/repeat" structure, which is one reason why I tend to enjoy the most chaotic segments. And of course, we're also robbed of appreciating Blixa's lyrics because they're in German. So, an Einsturzende Neubauten show's virtues often are more "visual" than "auditory." But the visuals are so novel that this isn't as insulting as it sounds. Passing thought: For an eternally underground band, EN has quite a large, sleek tour bus. Favorite thing overheard while waiting in line to enter: "Jackson's my Internet boyfriend." I also ran into an old bizarro-music friend whom I hadn't seen in so long that I don't even *know* how long it had been. That was joyous. Note to the El Rey Theater: The new "MERCHANDISE SALES" neon sign in back becomes a hideous eyesore whenever the stage lights go dim in a "dramatic moment." Grrr. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 21:35:19 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Quick EN comments (Blue Man Group, eat yer heart out) On Tue, May 11, 2004, Eb wrote: > By the way, I saw Einsturzende Neubauten on Saturday night. I saw them on April 24 in NY. As usual a great show. First time I saw them was on Nov. 17, 1990 (I have the ticket stub) at the Sound Factory in NY. I've seen them another 4 or 5 times since. I think they have matured a lot, and are a pleasure to see. > Mostly, we just care about the found instruments, right? OK, well, > "instruments" used included air-compressor hose + pitched plastic > pipes, metal wheel rims, transistor radio, various other bits of metal > percussion and, most amusing of all, a two-tier tray with cut-off Ocean > Spray bottles and things haphazardly taped in place, spinning on an old > turntable (the air compressor nozzle was aimed into the spinning bottle > openings for random sounds). Nothing involving pyrotechnics, sparks, > flames, etc., but of course we're living in a post-Great White age now. At our show, Blixa actually commented that the tubes they had bought at the Home Depot in DC. > No opening band. Same here, and I appreciated it. My body tolerates being in a show situation less and less. And at 32 (On June 1) it upsets me. But a couple of sessions of acupuncture, cupping, and intense massage seems to be loosening me up well. > With Einsturzende Neubauten, my general surface impression is...the > louder and more dissonant the song is, the *better* it is. ;) Even if > I liked a few of the quiet pieces on the Silence Is Sexy album quite a > bit. The Saturday-night set was frustratingly muted at times, but the > cut-loose moments were still hair-raising. I've only seen EN once > before (early '90s), and I didn't recall Blixa's unusual ability to > *scream*. He has this thin, parched, primal howl which he can pull out > during especially cathartic moments, and it just doesn't sound *human*. > Wow. Yeah, Blixa can really scream. Do you remember that in one of the splash things in 120 Minutes on MTV in the 80s they had a short clip of Blixa screaming? I would love to find am mpeg of it. Someone must have digitized that somewhere. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 21:53:59 EDT From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: reap Anthony Ainley, a.k.a. The Master, 1980s arch enemy of Doctor Who http://tinyurl.com/2f53k ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 03:32:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: He's not just an incompetent narcissistic idiot...[warning 100% politcal screeching] if this is true, George W. Bush is an absolute fucking traitor. So he's officially a de facto collaborator now, just just merely the bitch of the various terrorist factions. Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi blamed for more than 700 killings in Iraq By Jim Miklaszewski Correspondent NBC News Updated: 7:14 p.m. ET March 02, 2004 With Tuesdays attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq. But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself  but never pulled the trigger. In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide. The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council. Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didnt do it, said Michael OHanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution. Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe. The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq. People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the presidents policy of preemption against terrorists, according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey. In January 2003, the threat turned real. Police in London arrested six terror suspects and discovered a ricin lab connected to the camp in Iraq. The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the National Security Council killed it. Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawis operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam. The United States did attack the camp at Kirma at the beginning of the war, but it was too late  Zarqawi and many of his followers were gone. Heres a case where they waited, they waited too long and now were suffering as a result inside Iraq, Cressey added. And despite the Bush administrations tough talk about hitting the terrorists before they strike, Zarqawis killing streak continues today. ) 2004 MSNBC Interactive ===== "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! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 04:13:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Trust me, I know what I'm doing In happier news that the traitor in the White House: And if it sells well enough, supposedly a movie could be in the works. ===== "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! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 06:02:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Oasis recruits Ringo's son LONDON (AP) -- Oasis is taking its fascination with The Beatles one step further -- by enlisting Zak Starkey, son of former Beatle Ringo Starr, to play drums. Band member Noel Gallagher said on British Broadcasting Corp. radio Tuesday that Starkey had been working with Oasis in the studio and would join them on tour and play in front of 150,000 people at the Glastonbury Festival next month. "We've known Zak for a while and we asked him if he'd play on a few songs and he said yeah, and he has done [it] and it's been absolutely fantastic," Gallagher said. Gallagher and his brother Liam are unabashed admirers of The Beatles. Liam Gallagher even named his son Lennon. A spokeswoman for the group said no one has yet been appointed to fill the position left when the last drummer, Alan White, quit the band. ===== "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! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 06:04:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: A Real Reap R&B artist John Whitehead shot dead The Associated Press 5/12/2004, 8:11 a.m. ET PHILADELPHIA (AP)  John Whitehead, a prominent R&B artist best known for the 1979 hit song "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now," was shot dead Tuesday, police said. Whitehead, 55, and another man were working on a vehicle when they were shot by two gunmen, police said. The assailants fled. Whitehead was shot in the neck and collapsed. Ohmed Johnson, who was shot in the buttocks, was in good condition early Wednesday, a hospital spokeswoman said. Police said the gunmen fired a series of bullets; a young neighborhood girl said she heard about a dozen shots. "Why did they do this to my dad?" Dawn Whitehead, 33, asked at the scene. "I just talked to him yesterday ... He was a fun person. Who would want to kill him?" Police had no immediate suspects or motive. Gene McFadden, who was Whitehead's partner in the singing group McFadden & Whitehead, went to the scene in the city's West Oak Lane neighborhood and stood there trembling, WPVI-TV reported. The two men formed a group called the Epsilons in their youth and were discovered by Otis Redding, touring with the legendary performer in the 1960s, according to their Web site. The duo wrote several hit songs performed by others in the 1970s, including "Back Stabbers," "For the Love of Money," "I'll Always Love My Mamma," "Bad Luck," "Wake Up Everybody," "Where Are All My Friends," "The More I Want," and "Cold, Cold World." "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" went to No. 1 on the R&B chart and reached No. 13 on the pop chart. The song became an unofficial anthem for the Phillies as they charged to a World Series championship in 1980 and the Eagles as they reached the Super Bowl in 1981. ===== "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! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:32:04 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Trust me, I know what I'm doing Yay, I completely loved Sledge Hammer. It's dumb as a sack of hammers, but I loved every minute of it. Unfortunately, tha-big-ass-river.ca doesn't have it yet, and I'd hate to pay the brokerage and customs fees. cheers, Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:52:36 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: Reap Dear oh dear oh dear oh dear When will these talentless chancers give it up? Cheers Matt, inexplicably arsey today... >From: Jeff Dwarf >Reply-To: Jeff Dwarf >To: Where everybody leave their bone >Subject: Reap >Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 06:02:39 - -0700 (PDT) > > > >Oasis recruits Ringo's son > >LONDON (AP) -- Oasis is taking its fascination with The >Beatles one step further -- by enlisting Zak Starkey, son >of former Beatle Ringo Starr, to play drums. > >Band member Noel Gallagher said on British Broadcasting >Corp. radio Tuesday that Starkey had been working with >Oasis in the studio and would join them on tour and play in >front of 150,000 people at the Glastonbury Festival next >month. > >"We've known Zak for a while and we asked him if he'd play >on a few songs and he said yeah, and he has done [it] and >it's been absolutely fantastic," Gallagher said. > >Gallagher and his brother Liam are unabashed admirers of >The Beatles. Liam Gallagher even named his son Lennon. > >A spokeswoman for the group said no one has yet been >appointed to fill the position left when the last drummer, >Alan White, quit the band. > > >===== >"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! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' >http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay in touch better and keep protected online with MSNs NEW all-in-one Premium Services. Find out more here. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:08:03 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Quick EN comments (Blue Man Group, eat yer heart out) Eb writes, > By the way, I saw Einsturzende Neubauten on Saturday night. Awesome! Chris Gross and I saw them in New York last week. They are always one of my favorite live bands. (Though I did not see Ken at all! ;( > Nothing involving pyrotechnics, sparks, > flames, etc., but of course we're living in a post-Great White age now. That's a good point -- the last few times I saw them, they used flaming torches and melting plastic. But lately they have been moving towards a "Let's explore everything we can possibly do with an air compressor" phase. > With Einsturzende Neubauten, my general surface impression is...the > louder and more dissonant the song is, the *better* it is. ;) On that I cannot agree. I am utterly enchanted with their post-Luge work, and I completely dig "Silence is Sexy" and "Perpetuum Mobile." But that doesn't mean I don't love it when they hammer out something loud and harsh! I was actually surprised at the inclusion of two "oldies" at the NY show -- "Neue Arme" and "Armenia." > I didn't recall Blixa's unusual ability to > *scream*. He has this thin, parched, primal howl which he can pull out > during especially cathartic moments, and it just doesn't sound *human*. > Wow. I am amazed that he can still do that. I would have thought he'd have ruined his throat long ago. It's chilling. > There were six members onstage, who rotated their positions with > changing pieces. It seemed like two of the members were younger > additions, Rudi Moser (on percussion) is indeed a younger member, and obviously influenced by the Bad Seeds. The keyboardist, Ash Wednesday, is just a fill-in when they go on tour. I actually wish they would do without him. > Their "song" structures can be a bit pedestrian, and that's where I get > a bit grumpy about this band. Too many songs have the same dull "minor > chord for eight beats/adjacent chord for another eight beats/repeat" Don't forget the ever-quickening tempo building up to a slogan-like, semi-chanted finale! Heh. > And of course, we're also robbed of appreciating Blixa's > lyrics because they're in German. That is a shame -- Neubauten makes me happy I learned German in school! I love his lyrics -- they're filled with paradox, wordplay, and wit. Another cool thing about this tour is that they are traveling with an instomatic CD-presser. They sell copies of the show right afterwards! - --Die Grosse Wachtel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:09:12 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: He's not just an incompetent narcissistic idiot...[warning 100% politcal screeching] On May 12, 2004, at 5:32 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > if this is true, George W. Bush is an absolute fucking > traitor. So he's officially a de facto collaborator now, > just just merely the bitch of the various terrorist factions. I've always said that Bush is an empty suit, but he's turned out to be even worse than I imagined. I hereby apologize for not being more rigorous in my criticism of him in 2000. - - Steve __________ It's amazing how many partisan Democrats and disgruntled former employees working under cover as career civil servants, spies and military officers have betrayed this president. It just seems to happen again and again and again. I mean, just think of the list: Rand Beers, well-known partisan Democrat and hack, Richard Clarke, self-promoter, disgruntled former employee, and "self-regarding buffoon", Karen Kwiatkowski, conspiracy theorist and all-around freak, Valerie Plame, hack and nepotist, Joe Wilson, partisan hack, self-promoter and shameless green tea lover. When will the abuse end? - Josh Marshall ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 06:58:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Trust me, I know what I'm doing "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > Yay, I completely loved Sledge Hammer. It's dumb as a > sack of hammers, but I loved every minute of it. > Unfortunately, tha-big-ass-river.ca doesn't have it yet, > and I'd hate to pay the brokerage and customs fees. It's not being released until July, so there is some time for Canadia to get its shit together. You gotta love a show that ends a season with nuclear holocaust thinking it's going to be cancelled. ===== "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! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:23:01 -0500 From: Subject: Re: He's not just an incompetent narcissistic idiot...[warning 100% religious screeching] [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On Wed, 12 May 2004 03:32 , Jeff Dwarf munki1972@yahoo.com> sent: >if this is true, George W. Bush is an absolute fucking >traitor. So he's officially a de facto collaborator now, >just just merely the bitch of the various terrorist >factions. ooh wow, you figured them out. another absolute truth exposed. yeah, he's probably a muslim on top of that. i bet he hates pork and always has bad breath. i wonder if he is sunni or shiite? well, at least he's not catholic. we've only had to suffer through that once, so far. would you trust your young son, alone, with a catholic president? i wonder if the pope has short eyes too? i mean, since so many of his friends do. we need a black, ex-hebrew, lesbian, physicist from hawaii for our next president. gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:20:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Quick EN comments (Blue Man Group, eat yer heart out) On Tue, 11 May 2004, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2004, Eb wrote: > > By the way, I saw Einsturzende Neubauten on Saturday night. > > I saw them on April 24 in NY. As usual a great show. Hey! That Quail guy and I were there, but we didn't see you. TGQ even said something to the effect of "I'm surprised we didn't see Ken at the show" afterwards. I just wish I had seen EN at the old 9:30 Club in DC, at the late 80's show where they took a jackhammer to that pillar that partially blocked the stage. I'm sure everyone who went to the old 9:30 wanted to do that at some point. Isn't the turntable with trash taped on top called an "air-cake"? - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:18:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: He's not just an incompetent narcissistic idiot...[warning 100% politcal screeching] steve wrote: > Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > if this is true, George W. Bush is an absolute fucking > > traitor. So he's officially a de facto collaborator > > now, just just merely the bitch of the various > > terrorist factions. > > I've always said that Bush is an empty suit, but he's > turned out to be even worse than I imagined. I hereby > apologize for not being more rigorous in my criticism of > him in 2000. And given his father what his father was/is, that wasn't an unreasonable expectation. Of course, he's so unaware of he connection between actions and consequences that he probably doesn't even realize that he is a de facto collaborator, so in that sense he still is their bitch. He is, sadly, far more his mother's son than his father's. ===== "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! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:20:30 +0100 From: Dr John Halewood Subject: RE: He's not just an incompetent narcissistic idiot...[warning 10 0% religious screeching] gshell@americangroupisp.com gyred and gimbled > i mean, since so many of his friends do. we need a black, ex-hebrew, lesbian, > physicist from hawaii for our next president. You missed out 'obese' and 'disabled' there boy. Gotta collect the set. cheers john (former physicist) p.s. What's "ex-hebrew"? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:53:57 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Chris Cunningham freaks me out too A while ago Gene posted about the "Work of Chris Cunningham" DVD, so put it on my Netflix list. I finally checked it out and I've got to agree - the guy is a fucking artist. Those Aphex Twin videos have been giving me nightmares! Now on to the Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry DVD's... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:18:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Chris Cunningham freaks me out too On Wed, 12 May 2004, Tom Clark wrote: > Now on to the Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry DVD's... The Gondry set is soooooo much better than Spike Jonze. I've enjoyed some Jonze videos before, but seeing them all at once make me feel like he was mostly a hack. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:53:29 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Quick EN comments (Blue Man Group, eat yer heart out) on 5/11/04 3:55 PM, Eb at elbroome@earthlink.net wrote: > By the way, I saw Einsturzende Neubauten on Saturday night. > I captured KFJC's four-hour Neubauten special last week if anybody wants it. It's a 221MB MP3 file. http://www.kfjc.org/programming/mayhem_2004.php#Mayhem_1 - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:50:54 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Quick EN comments > Quail, and his crap email server: > But lately they have been moving towards a > "Let's explore everything we can possibly do with an air compressor" > phase. As their female groupies daydream and giggle.... > I was actually surprised at the inclusion of two "oldies" at the NY > show -- > "Neue Arme" and "Armenia." Damn...you can recognize songs? Well done! Yes, Blixa said something about playing a 1983 piece which they had never done onstage before -- the one which involved the recording of his heartbeat. > The keyboardist, Ash Wednesday, is just a > fill-in when they go on tour. Aha. > Don't forget the ever-quickening tempo building up to a slogan-like, > semi-chanted finale! Heh. Well, I don't mind that. That's a structure which *suits* them. But when they strain to write something resembling a "song," the chord structure is usually pretty tired and recycled. Plod on Em for four beats, D for four beats, back to Em.... > That is a shame -- Neubauten makes me happy I learned German in > school! I > love his lyrics -- they're filled with paradox, wordplay, and wit. Ah, you literate bastard. > Another cool thing about this tour is that they are traveling with an > instomatic CD-presser. They sell copies of the show right afterwards! True. At the show I saw, there were some problems with people chattering too loudly in back at the bar. This was especially bad during a couple of the "sinister quiet" pieces. At one point near the end (it might have been during the "floor piece"), a guy yelled out "WILL YOU GUYS SHUT UP IN BACK???" and many others cheered. If he buys the CD, he'll have a nice narcissistic souvenir. ;) Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #133 ********************************