From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #134 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, May 13 2004 Volume 13 : Number 134 Today's Subjects: ----------------- EN/GP ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Chris Cunningham freaks me out too ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: He's not just an incompetent narcissistic idiot...[warning 100% politcal screeching] [Capuchin ] Pens for Afghanistan [Jeff Dwarf ] re: [warning 50% religious screeching] [] Spheres of Influence. [FSThomas ] they're here ["Melissa Higuchi" ] robyn + magic band = fall? [anthony stokes ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:29:21 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: EN/GP >>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. Never having seen EN at all, but having seen the Bad Seeds a time or two... this is probably the main thing I *do* recall about Blixa. Greg: >>we need a black, ex-hebrew, lesbian, physicist from hawaii for >>our next president. That... actually sound pretty good. So, those of you interested in the Gram P. tribute show... might it be feg-meet time in LA? Glen, didn't realize you'd made the move to Grand Junction already. I guess that's what I get for having my life go to hell the weekend you were in town... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:54:33 -0500 From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: Chris Cunningham freaks me out too > 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. I'll agree with Aaron on this, too. I think the Jonze videos were pretty much poop. I was surprised, considering how much I've enjoyed his movies. The Gondry DVD was a real eye-opener, too. But I've been having nightmares that the drum-playing monkey in the Cunningham art project has been following me down a dark alley, except it's playing a song by The Shaggs instead of The Aphex Twin. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:00:20 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: EN/GP On May 12, 2004, at 1:29 PM, Rex.Broome wrote: > Glen, didn't realize you'd made the move to Grand Junction already. I > guess that's what I get for having my life go to hell the weekend you > were in town... Not there yet. My last day at work is the 27th and my last day in California is June 5. No worries about being busy when I was down your way. As I recall, I didn't exactly give you a hell of a lot of notice that I was coming. Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:44:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: He's not just an incompetent narcissistic idiot...[warning 100% politcal screeching] On Wed, 12 May 2004, 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. So now failing to make a pre-emptive strike is collaboration? Fuck, we should just nuke everybody just in case they're planning something. > 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. This pretty much sums up that Bush is an idiot, not a traitor. (I guess I'd like to hear your definition of traitor.) > 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. Right... should have attacked Iraq sooner. This is all the "opposition" can muster? Bush didn't commit his crimes fast enough? > And despite the Bush administrations tough talk about hitting the > terrorists before they strike, Zarqawis killing streak continues today. Sho nuff. There's plenty of folks out there that need killin'. Ramp up the death machines. I'm very sorry for the condition of public discourse. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:10:17 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: Sledge Hammer >"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 on that juxtaposition I must note that an acquaintance of mine had a big old dumb husky which he called "Sledge", partly in tribute to that show. Perfect name. 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, 13 May 2004 10:13:18 +0100 From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #133 Did I just miss it, or has no-one reported the death of Barney Kessel? Apparently John and George cited him as their favourite guitarist. I only ever saw him once, in a trio with a British drummer and stand-up bassist. He introduced them by saying "I worked with these guys on my last UK tour and the one before that. And I'm going to go on working with them until they learn the numbers". - - Mike Godwin PS Went to a Marshall amps promo evening last night, featuring Jim Marshall himself, who was selling copies of his book "The Father of Loud". ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 06:54:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Pens for Afghanistan Nicked from Tom Tomorrow's Website: Mightier than the sword From Terry Welch: As many of you know, I am currently in the apolitical position of Army public affairs specialist in Afghanistan... When I first mentioned on my blog, Nitpicker, that I was going to be deployed, a large number of you asked how you could help me, what I would need for Afghanistan. The truth is, there's not much. However, I just went on my first mission with a civil affairs group and found a way you might be able to help me out. It seems that the children of Afghanistan want nothing more than they want a pen. It was explained to me that the villages through which I traveled (near Kandahar, where I'm based) are so poor that a pen is like a scholarship to these children. They desperately want to learn but, without a pen, they simply won't. It's a long story. I won't bore you with it. Trust me, though, when I say that it would be a big deal if even a few of you could put up the call for pens for me. Anyone interested in helping out could either send some directly to me or go to these sites and send them, where you can find them for as cheap as $.89 a dozen. (Office Max) You can send them to me at this address: Terry L. Welch 105th MPAD Kandahar Public Affairs Office APO AE 09355 Office Max link above. Or you can use Office Depot--John Reinan has the lowdown: I wanted to respond to Terry's request for pens and discovered that from the Office Depot website, you cannot ship to an APO address. What you need to do is send an e-mail to apo-fpoorders@officedepot.com Tell them what you want to order (from the Office Depot website) and where to ship it. You can give them your credit card number if you feel bold, or leave it off and they'll call you back to get it. I went ahead and gave it to them. I sent Terry 30 dozen pens. They only cost 74 cents a dozen, for a total of under 25 bucks. What a deal to get 360 Afghan kids a start on an education. If you have questions, the Office Depot helpline for this is 800-487-4585, but they'll just tell you what I just told you. ===== "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: Thu, 13 May 2004 08:56:54 -0500 From: Subject: re: [warning 50% religious screeching] [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On Wed, 12 May 2004 17:20 , Dr John Halewood sent: >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. someone visibly 'disabled' by anything, probably couldn't win. it needs to be a fairly good looker in these times. we could throw in 'an active 12 stepper' too. that could push it either way. i think it would depend on the specifc drug though. some drug addictions are acceptable, some are not. for most, obesity could move the candidate from the 'not hard to look at' to the 'not so easy to look at' group. that would never work. who was the last obese president? the last disabled president was roosevelt wasn't it? he tried to hide his own disability. i was just trying to make the point that we need something new, untested and unusual. an enlightened, black lesbian scientist from hawaii meets this criteria. >p.s. What's "ex-hebrew"? like a graduated jew, but more pc. that's someone who once claimed to share genetic similarities to issac, abraham and that other fella. it was a way, they thought, to help insure something. many have realized the absurdity of these beliefs, the rest are moving to isreal. gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:53:42 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Spheres of Influence. http://www.musicplasma.com ======================= Should you go to the site and type in a band/performer's name, it places them in some sort of sphere of influence. "The closer the artists are, musically speaking, the closer to each other they will be displayed on screen. You will be likely to appreciate artists close to the one you selected at first. The artists such as represented in clusters relate to one another through their musical style (Rock, Funk, Pop, Folk, Electro) but also similar epochs (60's, 70's...) The halo (circle) surrounding an artist's name represents how popular he is...The larger the halo is, the more popular the artist is or the more representative he is of a musical style. ======================= Advisory: Flash req'd. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:50:24 -0500 (CDT) From: "Melissa Higuchi" Subject: they're here I just saw my first few cicada nymphs last night while walking home from the grocery store. At first i thought it was g iant roach until i realized that it was too fat and slow. I ran into another 10 or so on the way home. They were moving like they just got up from a 17 year nap. I live a few blocks from Rock Creek park so i expect that it's going to be very noisy real soon. other stuff: a belated congratulations to jill. videos: definitely skip the spike jonze one. the other two are so wonderful and vivid that the spike jonze one seems like mildly distracting television in comparison. melissa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:23:18 -0700 (PDT) From: anthony stokes Subject: robyn + magic band = fall? Jeffrey: >>but I'm also imagining Robyn singing the0 >>Captain's parts...that would be an interesting concept! He did a real interesting version of "Neon Meate Dream of an Octafish" at the Bottom Line show Halloween. Better than the original I'd say. Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #134 ********************************