From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #222 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, August 3 2004 Volume 13 : Number 222 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Enz [James Dignan ] Re: Enz [Jeff Dwarf ] Manchurian Hitchcock ["Marc Holden" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #221 [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Manchurian Hitchcock ["Sumiko Keay" ] Re: Manchurian Hitchcock [Eb ] Indiana Jones and The Lost Fart ["The Mammal Brain" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:11:01 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Enz >They played at Bath University hall many years ago, in the days before the >powers restricted it to lectures only. All I remember is the weird clown >outfits and mechanical doll movements. > >As with so many bands of that era (I won't mention Japan), they seemed to >me to be over-influenced by Roxy Music. not at all odd, or perhaps odder than you think. They started off roughly like that, before anyone in NZ had ever really heard of Roxy Music (Virginia Plain wasn't a big hit here, and the Enz formed only shortly after that was released). When they reached the UK, Phil Manzanera got to hear of them, and helped them find gigs in Britain (he also produced their second album), so it is natural that any Roxy-like tendencies they had would be increased. The didn't really hit their straps until they started to move away from Phil Judd's rambling epics towards Tim (and later Neil) Finn's tighter rock structures, around the time of 1978's "Dizrythmia" (their... ummm... let's see... fourth album, IIRC). And by that time they had moved a world away from Roxyisms. 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: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 17:26:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Enz James Dignan wrote: > The didn't really hit their straps until they started to > move away from Phil Judd's rambling epics towards Tim > (and later Neil) Finn's tighter rock structures, around > the time of 1978's "Dizrythmia" (their... ummm... let's > see... fourth album, IIRC). Third album. No disrepect to Phil Judd, but him to Neil Finn has to be the greatest individual upgrade in the history of guys making great noises with strumming things and banging things. > And by that time they had moved a world away from > Roxyisms. ===== "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!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 01:39:10 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Manchurian Hitchcock This was the first time I ever saw Robyn's head over 20 feet tall--Storefront Hitchcock never played here (or LA as far as I recall). I liked the original Manchurian Candidate film; but it's been about 20 years since I've seen it, and I've lost nearly all memory of the movie other than the basic plot. Robyn had a roll which really suited him well. It was a slightly bigger part than I thought it would be. The Museum of Robyn Hitchcock site describes it as a "cameo", but he's in several scenes and has a bit of dialogue. Maybe I'm just splitting hairs, but to me, a cameo is just a brief, often un-credited shot in a film, like George Harrison's appearances in both the "Life of Brian" and the Rutles "All You Need is Cash". Again, it was a nice part for Robyn, and it makes me wonder if he will try to land any more movie work. Alan Rickman (Professor Snape from the Harry Potter movies) made an appearance at Robyn's 50th birthday concert last year, reading a poem that Robyn wrote. Maybe he could help get Robyn in there somehow. I could just picture Robyn playing "Mad Eye" Mooney. What sort of rolls would you like to see offered to Robyn? Later, Marc I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist, "You know what will save the world? You're holding it in your hand." And the other scientist looks, and in his hand are peanuts. Then when he looks up, the first scientist is being taken away to the insane asylum.--- Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:37:30 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #221 > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:43:38 -0700 > From: "Natalie Jane" > Subject: Sonic Youth gnatmaniax - battling the evil formatting demons > The show ended with Lee and Thurston scraping their guitars repeatedly > against each other, producing a wonderfully excruciating noise. Great stuff! This gag used to be a regular feature of the Blue Oyster Cult's act in the seventies. There's a photo on the inner sleeve of (I think) Tyranny and Mutation - see the ropey reproduction of it (plus several Meltzer references) here: Usually executed during 'Born to be wild', accompanied by flashing strobes and / or lasers. All now banned by health and safety, just like home-made cakes. - - Mike Godwin n.p. Lloyd Cole 'Lost Weekend' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 08:30:22 -0500 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: Manchurian Hitchcock I will have to admit that everytime he came on screen part of me was all "Robyn!!!" But I managed to not say it out loud. Sumi >>> "Marc Holden" 08/02/04 03:39AM >>> This was the first time I ever saw Robyn's head over 20 feet tall--Storefront Hitchcock never played here (or LA as far as I recall). I liked the original Manchurian Candidate film; but it's been about 20 years since I've seen it, and I've lost nearly all memory of the movie other than the basic plot. Robyn had a roll which really suited him well. It was a slightly bigger part than I thought it would be. The Museum of Robyn Hitchcock site describes it as a "cameo", but he's in several scenes and has a bit of dialogue. Maybe I'm just splitting hairs, but to me, a cameo is just a brief, often un-credited shot in a film, like George Harrison's appearances in both the "Life of Brian" and the Rutles "All You Need is Cash". Again, it was a nice part for Robyn, and it makes me wonder if he will try to land any more movie work. Alan Rickman (Professor Snape from the Harry Potter movies) made an appearance at Robyn's 50th birthday concert last year, reading a poem that Robyn wrote. Maybe he could help get Robyn in there somehow. I could just picture Robyn playing "Mad Eye" Mooney. What sort of rolls would you like to see offered to Robyn? Later, Marc I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist, "You know what will save the world? You're holding it in your hand." And the other scientist looks, and in his hand are peanuts. Then when he looks up, the first scientist is being taken away to the insane asylum.--- Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:20:36 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Eb Subject: Re: Manchurian Hitchcock > What sort of rolls would you like to see offered to Robyn? > Later, Marc Egg and/or dinner, I guess. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 21:16:53 -0700 From: "The Mammal Brain" Subject: Indiana Jones and The Lost Fart any reviews of the scissor sisters rekkid, out last week? "Take Your Mama" is my favourite song so far this year (not counting "Danko/Manuel", which hasn't been released yet), and i'm eager to know how the rest of the album stacks up. here's my short review of *Animal Serenade*, if anybody cares: half of it is decidedly so-so, while the other half is decidedly rockin'. "Venus In Furs" rips the original version a new shitter. (and you can take that to the bank, daddy.) the record is worth obtaining for this song alone. in case you missed it, microschlong is planning to increase its "storehouse" of intellectual property. see linked article and brief rejoinder at . by the way, how come none of you mozilla geeks have been pimping the firefox?? i'm not a fan of the mozilla browser, but firefox is the fucking *goods*. still some kinks to iron out, to be sure. but, shit, i never dreamed i could be passionate about a friggin' *browser*. yow! KEN "Intends to file more than 3,000 patents in its 2005 fiscal year" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #222 ********************************