From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #275 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, September 30 2004 Volume 13 : Number 275 Today's Subjects: ----------------- re: Balloon Man, the movie ["Marc Holden" ] RE: Because Pearl Jam was actually the next U2 [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: outdoor iRiver ["Stewart C. Russell" ] robyn on evening sequence [bisontentacle ] Re: outdoor iRiver [] Re: outdoor iRiver [] damn damn damn damn [Eb ] Re: damn damn damn damn [Ken Weingold ] RE: damn damn damn damn [Eb ] effin brilliant [] REAP: Izora Rhodes Armstead ["Jay Lyall" ] RE: damn damn damn... damn! ["Rex Broome" ] Re: effin brilliant ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: outdoor iRiver ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: damn damn damn damn [Tom Clark ] RE: damn damn damn... damn! [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: damn damn damn... damn! [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: effin brilliant [] Re: effin brilliant [Vendren ] Blame Canada [Tom Clark ] Re: Blame Canada [Aaron Lowe ] Re: Blame Canada ["Stewart C. Russell" ] RE: damn damn damn... damn! ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: effin brilliant ["Rex Broome" ] REAP ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: effin brilliant ["Matt Sewell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:33:34 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: re: Balloon Man, the movie Gene directed us to: > http://www.sharpeworld.com/main/balloonman.html >No chickpeas, almonds, or strips of skin. Or so it seems. I think I like the Balloon Woman movie a bit more... an oldie, but a goodie (careful at work, etc.) http://nutty.chris.com/nutty/video/balloon-swallow.mpg Later, Marc There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. Frank Zappa ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 02:03:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: Because Pearl Jam was actually the next U2 Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com wrote: > Jeff wrote: > >I agree that it's probably PI, though Globe of Frogs set > >a then-record (later tied by Love & Rockets, Peter > >Murphy, and Kate Bush, and I think broken by Belly) for > >topping the college charts for 8 weeks. But it was also > >probably easier to get to the top spot and stay there > >in 1988 than later. > > Kate Bush... I am thinking that her 8 week run was for > The Sensual World. Yeah. Globe of Frogs, tied by the self-titled Love and Rockets record with "So Alive", Peter Murphy's Deep, then The Sensual World. ===== "'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 is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 02:35:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Spooked Antics Miles Goosens wrote: > Oh, and Rex: I'm guessing that people are making R.E.M. > comparisons not just because of that startling use of > major chords, but because they have organ instead of icy > synth on some of the songs. Because, y'know, no one > thought of those things before R.E.M. It's the arpegios. Remember when Peter Buck invented the arpegio.... ===== "'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 - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:06:04 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: outdoor iRiver Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > > That's a lovely recording. Thanks. It really was recorded in a field -- of soy beans (genetically-modified seedstock for Monsanto, grr), filled with more toads, frogs, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets and (unfortunately) mosquitoes, than I'd ever experienced in my life. I just missed a chance to record hiphop/fusion electric bassoonist Jeff Burke the other day. He's one of this year's licensed buskers on the subway. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:41:29 -0400 From: bisontentacle Subject: robyn on evening sequence one time at band camp, Richard Fryer (richardfryermail@tiscali.co.uk) said: >Robyn is about to be on Radio 6 in the UK, you can listen to the broadcast >on www.bbc.co.uk/6music. >He is talking about spooked and playing some acoustic tracks. robyn appearance on last night's evening sequence on bbc 6music is archived until next monday at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/6music_aod.shtml?sequence_mon the direct link to the realaudio stream is http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/rpms/sequence_mon.rpm and the stream address for realplayer is rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/6music/sequence_mon.ra?start=1:09:08 woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:43:42 -0500 From: Subject: Re: outdoor iRiver [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:06 , Stewart C. Russell sent: >Thanks. It really was recorded in a field -- of soy beans >(genetically-modified seedstock for Monsanto, grr), >filled with more toads, frogs, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets and >(unfortunately) mosquitoes, than I'd ever experienced in my life. gm seeds! man, you didn't develop any smelly lesions like cancrum or an irritating and unsightly sebaceous infection did you? gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:53:51 -0500 From: Subject: Re: outdoor iRiver [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] regarding the gm seed issue, has anyone seen any gm'd cannabis seeds yet? gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:11:41 -0700 From: Eb Subject: damn damn damn damn Tom Waits was on Letterman last night...I *knew* Tom Waits would be on Letterman last night...and I forgot to watch. Anyone see it? Recap? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:31:53 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: damn damn damn damn On Wed, Sep 29, 2004, Eb wrote: > Tom Waits was on Letterman last night...I *knew* Tom Waits would be on > Letterman last night...and I forgot to watch. > > Anyone see it? Recap? I can't listen to Tom Waits. It makes my tattoo hurt. It was done 14 years ago and took three hours. For about the first two the artist was listening to Tom Waits. Imagine two hours of needles going in and out of your skin while listening to Tom Waits. Agony, I tell you. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:37:25 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: damn damn damn damn On Wed, Sep 29, 2004, Eb wrote: > Tom Waits was on Letterman last night...I *knew* Tom Waits would be on > Letterman last night...and I forgot to watch. > > Anyone see it? Recap? I can't listen to Tom Waits. It makes my tattoo hurt. It was done 14 years ago and took three hours. For about the first two the artist was listening to Tom Waits. Imagine two hours of needles going in and out of your skin while listening to Tom Waits. Agony, I tell you. - ----- I'm like that with Billy Idol. Every time I hear Billy Idol, it just reminds me of previous times I've heard Billy Idol. Brrr. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:47:17 -0500 From: Subject: effin brilliant [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/29/spaceshipone.attempt.cnn/index.html gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:00:57 -0500 From: "Jay Lyall" Subject: REAP: Izora Rhodes Armstead 'It's Raining Men' singer dead SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Izora Rhodes Armstead, who sang the 1980's dance club hit "It's Raining Men" as one half of the Weather Girls, has died. Her age was unknown. Armstead, who along with partner Martha Wash started out as background singers for San Francisco disco diva Sylvester before forming the Weather Girls, died on September 16 of heart failure at a hospital in San Leandro, about 20 miles east of San Francisco. Armstead and Wash, who met when they sang in the same gospel group, were known as Two Tons O' Fun when they sang on four Sylvester Albums, including his No. 1 club hits, "Dance (Disco Heat)" and "(You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real." After leaving Sylvester, they made three albums as the Weather Girls before splitting up. One of the albums, "Success," featured the 1983 song "It's Raining Men" -- co-written by "Late Show" bandleader Paul Shaffer -- which was a No. 1 dance club hit. - ---------------------------------------- Jay Lyall - Houston, Texas "Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy." - Mike Donohue http://www.johnkerry.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:06:10 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: RE: damn damn damn... damn! > I can't listen to Tom Waits. It makes my tattoo hurt. It was done 14 > years ago and took three hours. For about the first two the artist > was listening to Tom Waits. Imagine two hours of needles going in and > out of your skin while listening to Tom Waits. Agony, I tell you. On the other hand, I've seen a stripper do a routine to a Tom Waits song, and that works pretty well. Maybe because it's always cool to hear something not so damned obvious at a strip club, but more likely because being at a strip club sort of makes me feel like I am, or at least am slowly turning into, Tom Waits. - -Rex Broome (guitar and vocal, that band whose "big" "hit" "single" namedrops Waits) - -- _______________________________________________ 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: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:16:14 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: effin brilliant gshell@americangroupisp.com wrote: > > http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/29/spaceshipone.attempt.cnn/index.html I'm not getting the buzz over this at all. All we're doing is creating new ways for rich people to make air pollution here. None of us will get to space because of it. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:20:02 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: outdoor iRiver gshell@americangroupisp.com wrote: > > gm seeds! man, you didn't develop any smelly lesions like cancrum or an irritating > and unsightly sebaceous infection did you? Uh, no more than usual. We were pretty much bathing in DEET to keep the bugs off, so we're more than usually doomed. Cool moment on site: I made up a mix CD for the trip. One of the crew correctly identified a Neutral Milk Hotel track. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:23:03 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: damn damn damn damn On Sep 29, 2004, at 8:11 AM, Eb wrote: > Tom Waits was on Letterman last night...I *knew* Tom Waits would be on > Letterman last night...and I forgot to watch. > > > > Anyone see it? Recap? > TiVo'd it and watched it this morning. Waits has always been a "gotta be in the mood for it" kind of performer for me, but this was fucking brilliant. He did "Make It Rain" and just blew the doors off the place. I can burn you a DVD of it if you like. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:48:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: damn damn damn... damn! Rex Broome wrote: > -Rex Broome (guitar and vocal, that band whose "big" > "hit" "single" namedrops Waits) I was really disappointed when I found out the correct line in EATB's "Pride" was _John_ waits, instead of Tom. Do it, do it, do it, do it Do it, do it, do it, do it Do it, do it ===== "'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!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:48:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: damn damn damn... damn! Rex Broome wrote: > -Rex Broome (guitar and vocal, that band whose "big" > "hit" "single" namedrops Waits) I was really disappointed when I found out the correct line in EATB's "Pride" was _John_ waits, instead of Tom. Do it, do it, do it, do it Do it, do it, do it, do it Do it, do it ===== "'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!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:05:10 -0500 From: Subject: Re: effin brilliant [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:16 , Stewart C. Russell sent: >gshell@americangroupisp.com wrote: >> >> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/29/spaceshipone.attempt.cnn/index.html > >I'm not getting the buzz over this at all. All we're doing is creating >new ways for rich people to make air pollution here. None of us will get >to space because of it. maybe none of you, but don't count anyone else out. there is far, far more to this than air pollution and fantasy vacations and we have far more to worry about, for instance, from asia regarding air pollution, water pollution, desertification and enviromental desolation in the next couple decades than anything spaceshipone could ever produce. the idea of something with non-politcal agendas runnning a space program is quite exciting to me. gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:10:48 -0700 From: Vendren Subject: Re: effin brilliant > gshell@americangroupisp.com wrote: > > > > http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/29/spaceshipone.attempt.cnn/index.html > > I'm not getting the buzz over this at all. All we're doing is creating > new ways for rich people to make air pollution here. None of us will get > to space because of it. > > Stewart I'm pretty excited. I plan to live a long time and get filthy rich and get my ass into space. I plan to drink a martini while I'm up there. Plus, I think our planet is doomed, so the time to foul up another planet is soon. Actually, I watched it live, as I always watch these things live. I've been on a renewed science kick of late, ever since I got the "Discovery Channel." Palle NP: My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves (and playing it really loud) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:24:52 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Blame Canada Barenaked Ladies Variety Show? http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040929/D85DD7GG0.html - -tc p.s. REAP "Oreo", the guinea pig at my daughter's school. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:53:33 -0500 From: Aaron Lowe Subject: Re: Blame Canada At 01:24 PM 9/29/2004, Tom Clark wrote: >Barenaked Ladies Variety Show? >http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040929/D85DD7GG0.html http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/28/television.barenaked.reut/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:58:49 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Blame Canada Tom Clark wrote: > Barenaked Ladies Variety Show? well, I'm told that the TV variety show died last in Canada. Can I also say that Steven Page is a member of a coop of which I'm a director? We've stood on the same piece of carpet at the same time, once ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:00:17 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: damn damn damn... damn! > I can't listen to Tom Waits. It makes my tattoo hurt. It was done 14 > years ago and took three hours. For about the first two the artist > was listening to Tom Waits. Imagine two hours of needles going in and > out of your skin while listening to Tom Waits. Agony, I tell you. The Lord Of The Rings - Fellowship Of The Rings, when the 9 Ring Wraiths are abroad on their horses, it's a perfect time for Tom Waits "The Black Rider". Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:34:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: effin brilliant On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 gshell@americangroupisp.com wrote: > the idea of something with non-politcal agendas runnning a space program > is quite exciting to me. Um, profiteering is most definitely a political agenda. Anybody that tells you different is operating under the political agenda of profiteering. And what do you hope to see come from this that will benefit mankind? I mean, as wacky as it seems, I tend to agree that one major purpose of human scientific advancement will be to create the Great Ark so that in 50 million years (or whatever order of magnitude it is) we can go someplace more habitable, but I don't think there's any real reason to sacrifice this planet in that pursuit. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:28:47 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: effin brilliant Jeme: > I mean, as wacky as it seems, I tend to agree that one major purpose of > human scientific advancement will be to create the Great Ark so that in 50 > million years (or whatever order of magnitude it is) we can go someplace > more habitable, but I don't think there's any real reason to sacrifice > this planet in that pursuit. Hmmm. Well, I tend to agree with most of your ideals in abstract, Jeme, but you know... that? Is a little wacky. - -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: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:54:22 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: REAP Disc Jockey Scott Muni. _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar  get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:32:01 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: effin brilliant Wacky? It's only the basis of Ark In Space, a T Baker classic! I prefer Douglas Adams' idea that we build an ark and tell the hairdresses, admen, lawyers, estate agents etc that the world's going to end and put them on it... Bottom line is, one day the sun's going to explode or die out, and we only have the next few billion years to work out what the hell we're going to do! Cheers Matt >From: "Rex Broome" >Jeme: > > I mean, as wacky as it seems, I tend to agree that one major purpose of > > human scientific advancement will be to create the Great Ark so that in 50 > > million years (or whatever order of magnitude it is) we can go someplace > > more habitable, but I don't think there's any real reason to sacrifice > > this planet in that pursuit. > >Hmmm. > >Well, I tend to agree with most of your ideals in abstract, Jeme, but you know... that? Is a little wacky. > >-Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #275 ********************************