From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #204 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 13 2004 Volume 13 : Number 204 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Subject: Cortez The Killer Queen Elvis Presley And America Is Waiting for Godot [Barbara Soutar ] Re: Spelling mistake ["Eb" ] re: X:Man with the X-Ray Eyes ["Marc Holden" ] Re: reapal gormets ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] 100% Higson content [Michael R Godwin ] RE: 100% Higson content ["Matt Sewell" ] RE: 100% Higson content ["Brian Huddell" ] Google for Torrents? [FSThomas ] I Was A Teenage Bond ["rex broome" ] RE: 100% Higson content ["rex broome" ] Re: reapal gormets [Jeff Dwarf ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:59:29 -0400 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Re: Subject: Cortez The Killer Queen Elvis Presley And America Is Waiting for Godot Thanks Rex for the Zuma recommendation. I will gird my loins for those myogynist moments tainting the album but with good music you can't be too fussy. As I said before, Neil Young is Mr. Basic. Speaking of girding loins, I think that the anti-gay marriage amendment to the constitution is lame. It's one of the best strategies for preventing AIDS or do they recommend permanent sexual abstinence for all gays? Anyway, it's a red herring to distract the masses from hundreds of scandals and crises. A bumper sticker level of campaign strategy directed to the simple-minded among the citizenry. Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:41:45 -0400 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Spelling mistake I meant to write misogynist, rather than a meaningless word. Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:24:05 -0700 From: "Eb" Subject: Re: Spelling mistake From: "Barbara Soutar" > I meant to write misogynist, rather than a meaningless word. You messed up that image about "herding your lions" pretty badly, too. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:56:20 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: re: X:Man with the X-Ray Eyes >This reminds me-- I just saw that the upcoming free Pere Ubu concert in >Prospect Park Brooklyn, on the 22nd of this month, will in fact be a >live soundtrack accompaniment to a screening of X: The Man With The >X-Ray Eyes. And two of my favorite sometime-Ubus are on board for this >odd gig: Tony Maimone on bass and Chris Cutler on drums. I'm VERY >excited to see Cutler play finally, after all those hours listenin' to >Art Bears, Ubu's Tenement Year, Blegvad's Just Woke Up, etc. >Jon Lewis This sounds way too cool. Chris was a major element in the whole recording/retrieval of the Resident's Eskimo album. He's one of the Ralph Records artists I've always wanted to see (in addition to Fred Frith and Tuxedomoon). btw--(possible spoiler here) I've always heard that the original end of X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes was cut off because it was considered too extreme for movie audiences at the time. What I've heard is that the effects of the x-ray vision treatment became more intense than expected. The man with the x-ray enhanced vision realized that he could not deal with being able to see through everything. When he closed his eyes to block out the horrid sights, he realized that he could see right through his own eye lids. He freaked out and tore his eyes out. The bit edited out at that point is supposedly him saying,"I can still see!" Can anyone confirm that this is really how it happened? If so, has it been put back in the film at any point? Later, Marc "I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves." Emo Philips ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:34:18 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: reapal gormets > From: "Stewart C. Russell" > Subject: reap > > The Frugal Gourmet Didn't he have a thing for boys? > (not to be confused with 'The Frugal Gormets' [sic], who produced one > of > the most disturbing pieces of teen lo-fi ever: > , and scroll down to July > 17.) You know, I can swear that The Frugal Gormets are the same people who made an album under the name Blackhumor that I've known and loved for many years. It's one of those DIY affairs with someone else's album cover painted over, and features such hits as "Zebra Killers" and "Dull Peoples' Rights OK!" Has anyone else ever heard this LP? I've ripped it to MP3 if anyone's interested. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:14:13 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: 100% Higson content > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 13:23:25 -0700 (PDT) > From: Capuchin > This makes me think of that great Higsons song "Ylang Ylang" wherein he > sings the following lines: > You mix me up, you make me feel like > You mix me up, you make me feel like > Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas and Thomas Mann and Man Ray and Ray Miland in > The Man With The X-Ray Eyes > [and] > You mix me up, you make me feel like > Henry James and James Dean and Dean Martin and Martin Luther King Kong > You've got me climbing up the walls > And while there is no direct Robyn Content in this post, you will be > able to confirm my transcription by listening to The Higsons. Charlie Higson, who is now a UK TV star, has just been commissioned to write a series about James Bond as a teenager: - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:33:55 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: 100% Higson content Ian, bassist in me band says he saw The Higsons in a gay bar in Charing Cross in 1981. This is what he said about it: "Though not a patch on Ted and Ralph, the Higsons were quite entertaining, in a nervy white-boy funk sort of way. In 1981 everyone had 'always been into funk' and 'never liked rock music'. What a load of old bollocks it was to be sure. They later released a single called Country Girl Became Sex n Drugs Punk which I bought, quite fun but not at all funky." Now, can anyone tell me what the hell possessed our man to write a song after them...? Cheers Matt Norwich I really liked, though I've never visited East Grinstead >From: Michael R Godwin M.R.Godwin@bath.ac.uk > > > From: Capuchin > > This makes me think of that great Higsons song "Ylang Ylang" wherein he > > sings the following lines: > > You mix me up, you make me feel like > > You mix me up, you make me feel like > > Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas and Thomas Mann and Man Ray and Ray Miland in > > The Man With The X-Ray Eyes > > [and] > > You mix me up, you make me feel like > > Henry James and James Dean and Dean Martin and Martin Luther King Kong > > You've got me climbing up the walls > > And while there is no direct Robyn Content in this post, you will be > > able to confirm my transcription by listening to The Higsons. > >Charlie Higson, who is now a UK TV star, has just been commissioned to >write a series about James Bond as a teenager: > > > >- Mike Godwin - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have more fun with your phone - download ringtones, logos, screensavers, games & more. Click here to begin! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:43:38 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: 100% Higson content > They later released a single called Country Girl Became Sex n Drugs Punk > which I bought, quite fun but not at all funky." Why do I know this song? I actually remember it pretty clearly though I'm certain I don't own a copy. I'm thinking it must be on a movie soundtrack. Anybody know?. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:21:02 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Google for Torrents? Don't know if anyone's seen it yet, but I've just started looking at http://bitoogle.com, a sort of a Google interface for finding Bit Torrents. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:34:08 -0800 From: "rex broome" Subject: I Was A Teenage Bond Mike G: > Charlie Higson, who is now a UK TV star, has just been commissioned to > write a series about James Bond as a teenager: Hmmm. Teenage Bond. I guess that would be a period piece, but what period? I mean, in what decade was a guy who's been in his early forties from the mid-sixties until the early twenty-first century a *teenager*? Or is the current Bond just meant to be a really well-preserved 80-year old? A mystery for the ages... or more precisely, of the ages... - -Rex - -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:59:38 -0800 From: "rex broome" Subject: RE: 100% Higson content Matt on the Higsons: > Now, can anyone tell me what the hell possessed our man to write a song > after them...? I'm pretty sure it's explained (sort of) in the liner notes of one of the reissues. As I recall the key was the fact that Robyn misheard the lyrics to one of their stone cold white funk non rock classics as "Gotta Let This Hen Out", when the real lyric was "Gotta Let This Heat Out". Hence "I *thought* I heard them singing". Okay, that doesn't really explain why he wrote it, just part of what he's talking about, sort of. Surely I'm not the only one who initially imagined the Higsons as not a band but a family? Like an annoying family next door in a duplex... they're doing odd things with chickens and you can hear them throught the walls? Robyn had some interesting haircuts around about 1988, huh? - -Rex - -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:29:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: reapal gormets "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." wrote: > From: "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > > The Frugal Gourmet > > Didn't he have a thing for boys? He was accused of it a few years back, but denied. Nothing ever went to trial, but it did pretty much end his career. ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin "I'm going to keep playing music until somebody shoots me." -- Scott McCaughey "It would not now surprise me in the least if, one night on TV, right there during The Memo, [Bill] O'Reilly declared himself to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia." -- Charles Pierce on MSNBC.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #204 ********************************