From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #228 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, August 10 2004 Volume 13 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: candidate [Capuchin ] Martin Bell/New Zealand/IDG is out of the office. [Martin Bell ] REAP ["Danny Lieberman" ] reaps [James Dignan ] chartattack article [fingerpuppets ] It was 30 years ago today [steve ] The "Lesser" Evil ["The Mammal Brain" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 21:10:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: candidate On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > (who was convinced that the character was called "Laurence Tokar", but > the entire web is against me on this one) And and the credits at the end, too. Viv and I saw this the night it openned. We couldn't stop sniggering when Robyn was on screen. He did a fantastic job, sure, but it was a little distracting for us. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:01:12 +1200 From: Martin Bell Subject: Martin Bell/New Zealand/IDG is out of the office. I will be out of the office starting 08/08/2004 and will not return until 31/12/2004. Dear Colleague, I have left the employ of IDG to become an employer. Please direct all >>FFWD and PC World editorial matters to group editor Chris Keall (chris_keall@idg.co.nz). Please direct any production/printing related matters to media services manager Sara Goessi (sara_goessi@idg.co.nz). Plese direct any other business matters to managing director Bob Pinchin (bob_pinchin@idg.co.nz). If you want to reach me please email me at my new company HB Media on martin.bell@aut.ac.nz or call on 021 500 081 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 01:09:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Franz Ferdinand caught smuggling!!!! ===== "'Bushworld' is sort of an alternate universe where things are the opposite of what they seem. President Bush said the other day, 'It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offensive, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offensive because people do want to hurt us.' I mean that is a perfect 'Bushworld' quote. It's not true and it's nonsensical. It's the opposite of what is true. His new campaign motto is 'America is safer. Be afraid, be very afraid.' Everything is an oxymoron." -- Maureen Dowd __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:33:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Danny Lieberman" Subject: REAP Fay Wray. (96). - -- Danny Lieberman dfl@panix.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:25:43 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: reaps People here will no doubt have already reported Fay Wray, 96, but perhaps no-one has commented on Bernard Levin, 75. 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: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:59:50 -0400 From: fingerpuppets Subject: chartattack article Sadies Collaboration #206: Robyn Hitchcock Monday August 09, 2004 @ 04:00 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff Fans of artists as diverse as Gram Parsons and Syd Barrett are once again licking their chops over the release of The Sadies' newest record. Over the last four years, this band have slowly, yet masterfully, taken all the best elements of country & western, folk, '60s pop and psychedelia and blended them into their own distintive mix. The years of evolution culminate with Favourite Colours, the band's fifth release (if you don't count the ones they did with Andre Williams, Jon Langford and the up coming live one with Neko Case). "I feel like this time, in my humble opinion, we've finally got our style down," say Dallas Good who, along with his brother Travis, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky have molded The Sadies into what they are today. "This new record is much more cohesive than the earlier ones, which were done straight off the live set list, in the same order. We made our first two records, including the mix, in five days. I don't think we're changing styles like channels, which we may have done at one time." Despite this being perhaps the most together Sadies record in terms of expressing their own personal vision, it sure wasn't recorded that way. "This record was all done in bits and pieces," explains Travis. "We would use our days off on tour whenever anyone in the band had something ready to go. We didn't sit down and say it's was time to do a record, the songs just came out. It was nice not to do 12 songs in a row, but in smaller batches. I think it kept it more focused." Like any other Sadies' project, the spirit of collaboration is always in the air. Since the boys made Craig Shumacher's Wavelab studio in Tucson one of their favourite places to work (it's all vintage analog equipment), it's not hard to get someone like Tucson local Joey Burns from Calexico to play cello on a grandiose instrumental entitled "The Curdled Journey." But Wavelab also served as the best meeting place for the band to renew an aquaintance with British singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock, who adds his vocals to album's final cut "Why Would Anybody Live Here?" "We first met at The Calgary Folk Festival," says Dallas. "We were both doing workshops and I was fan of his, so I had the organizers approach him about doing some stuff with us on stage, specifically some Syd Barrett material. He was reluctant, so we just started playing and eventually he joined in. It went really well and he flew to our show in Winnipeg, where we did old Floyd, Byrds and Dylan songs. Of the four times we've played in England, he was able to join us twice on stage. "We were all in Tucson at the same time and we had already decided that we had every intention of working together when it was convenient. After discussing several different ideas, we settled on a song that we all liked. "When he finally did the song, he used no lyric sheets and did it in three takes, with the second and third ones being vocal harmonies. A real testament to his professionalism and the fact that it wasn't too much of a left turn for the guy. I know that this isn't the end of our collaboration." The fact that Dallas and the band want to do more with Robyn Hitchcock should come as no surprise. These boys like to keep busy. Among other efforts this year, they've done some soundtrack work for a couple of documentaries, one, according to Dallas, on the perception of The American Dream. For now, it's a few release shows to promote the new disc, then off to Holland and England in October, across Canada in November and down to the States for the first two weeks of December to back Neko Case. They're not exactly sitting around scratching their asses. "It's not that we're not happy if we're not working," Dallas says. "But if we feel strong about something we're going to make time for it. If it cuts into our TV time, fuck it. " Dan "The Mouth" Lovranski ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:00:54 -0500 From: steve Subject: It was 30 years ago today Well, enough of that. Has anybody seen - Texas: America Supersized? I don't have Trio, but I'm intrigued by the thought of Christopher Hitchens tooling around in Plano. - - Steve __________ What's annoying is that America is not content to be the world's |ber-bully. It also wants to be loved. It's like Bogart and Peter Lorre in The Maltese Falcon. "When you're slapped," the U.S. sneers, "you'll take it and like it." - Steve Burgess, Canadian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:43:39 -0700 From: "The Mammal Brain" Subject: The "Lesser" Evil from : Responding to President Bush's challenge to clarify his position, Sen. John F. Kerry said Monday that he still would have voted to authorize the war in Iraq even if he had known then that U.S. and allied forces would not find weapons of mass destruction. by the way, i've uploaded neutral milk hotel's 4/14/98 show at the crocodile to alt.binaries.music.shn. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #228 ********************************