From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #282 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, October 7 2004 Volume 13 : Number 282 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #280 [John Irvine ] Re: another reap [Aaron Mandel ] Nosferatu score on CD ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] other new stuff [BLATZMAN@aol.com] Re: Any comments on... ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Should we talk about the government? ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Should we talk about the government? [Jeff Dwarf ] What did I miss? [Bret ] Re: Pop Fly '89 (not '93) [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: other new stuff ["Rex Broome" ] Re: Any comments on... ["Rex Broome" ] Re: Any comments on... [Tom Clark ] RE: Green [Eb ] RE: What did I miss? [Eb ] Re: Pop Song '89 (not '93) [Vendren ] Re: Pop Song '89 (not '93) [Tom Clark ] Re: other new stuff [Vendren ] Pitchfork doesn't review Spooked... ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Pitchfork doesn't review Spooked... [Aaron Mandel ] Pitchfork Media [Bret ] Re: Pitchfork Media ["Rex Broome" ] Boo! (NR) [steve ] Re: Pitchfork doesn't review Spooked... [2fs ] Re: Pitchfork doesn't review Spooked... [2fs ] Pixies in Nashville, 10/6/04 [Miles Goosens ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:14:14 -0400 From: John Irvine Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #280 New wave guitar pop fiend here. Thanks for all the interest, we'll be sending out a pile of Jennifers cd's this week. I'll chime in too: I've always thought Porcupine was the ultimate Bunnymen product, from the loopy strings, to the soviet-velevets-cover-band vibe. They also took the money Sire allotted for one video and shot six, fun low budget clips for that record which are worth checking out if you love that sort of thing. On a related note - Luna is calling it quits after their latest cd/tour. "Rock and Roll is killing my life": http://www.fuzzywuzzy.com/docs/news.html I've always dug Sean Eden's Jazzmaster playing, and Dean - well Dean is Dean. I hope he continues to make music like the Dean and Britta project. That cd has spent a lot of time in the boudoir cd changer. - -John "Ringo was the funny one, but I prefer the Bunnymen" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:16:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: another reap On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, James Dignan wrote: > Max "the conk" Geldray Let's all join hands in a solemn ying-tong-iddle-I-po... a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:02:16 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Nosferatu score on CD ISTR people talking about live incidental music for silent films in San Francisco, so I thought I'd post this. Via BoingBoing.net: Nosferatu score CD CDBaby has done a limited-edition pressing of a CD of the orchestration from FW Mirnau's original film, Nosferatu. Described by the SF Weekly as "exquisite, lush, and positively poetic," the noirish compositions by Jill Tracy and The Malcontent Orchestra have developed a fervid following of devotees, critical acclaim, and multiple Bay Area Music Awards nominations. Their original score to F.W. Murnau's silent vampire classic "Nosferatu" has only enhanced the band's reputation of sophistication and musical virtuosity. The San Francisco Examiner described the score as "remarkable....lyrical and lovely." The Marin Independent called it "unforgettable." The San Francisco Chronicle hailed Nosferatu "deliciously macabre." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:17:56 EDT From: BLATZMAN@aol.com Subject: other new stuff And while everyone is weighing in... The new Tim Booth solo CD is just OK... I'm a big fan of the last 2 James CDs, and I find this new solo work to have some good moments, but just not as solid. Ian Broudie has a new solo CD out which I haven't heard, but am looking forward to. All lightning seeds fans should seek it out at Ianbroudie.com I'm not going to buy Spooked. I sampled everything on ITunes and it just sounds like the most boring CD ever recorded. I sorely miss the Egyptians, and have not been able to come to terms with Robyns solo career since the break-up. Oh well... It can't all be good Dave ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:26:52 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Any comments on... At 08:09 AM 10/6/2004 -0500, steve wrote: >On Oct 6, 2004, at 2:35 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > >>I got "Smile", but only listened to it partially. "Heroes & Villains" is >>much better than on "Smiley Smile", but "Good Vibrations" isn't. Are they >>even using a Theremin? > > >A look at the clips from the Showtime special showed the use of what >looked like the same kind of device used on the original, and it's not a >Theremin. I can't remember what it's called, but the name is sorta >similar. It uses a flat piece of metal on the top rather than antennas. On the original, they used something called an Electro-Theremin (thus the confusion), and on the new version a Tannerin which is akin to a theremin with a keyboard controller, both invented a fellow named Paul Tanner. Obviously Tanner's machines are based in principle on Theremin's original device. I'm not exactly sure if saying "it's not a Theremin, it's an Electro-Theremin" is the same as saying "it's not a guitar, it's an electric guitar" or not... - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:19:41 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Should we talk about the government? Palle: >>I used to think "Daysleeper" was the worst REM song. Until I heard "Leaving >>New York" which I think is even worse than "Make It All Ok" (which, don't >>get me wrong, it is really bad). Huh. "Daysleeper" doesn't bug me at all. I find it kind of touching, actually. >>But I would agree in rating "Reveal" over "Up." No way. The "Up"-like parts are dirgier still whilst saying less, and the remainder of it is mostly faux-"Automatic" with maybe a couple feints towards old-school jangle. The Best-Of had only the single and "Reno", right? That almost eliminates my need for the album. >>Though I pretty much think all their post-"Automatic" albums are >>uneven, rather uninspired discs. On more in the pro-"NAIHF" camp here, and "Up" has a drive to it... I wouldn't even call it uneven. Scattershot, maybe, but there's a willfullness to the experimentalism that almost equals coherence, and there are songs. >>I never expected REM to have the kind of slow slide to mediocrety that, say, >>your Elton Johns and Phil Collins seem destined to. But they have. "Around >>The Sun" is just so awful I could cry. Man. You said it. And it finally seems to have reached critical mass. Bad reviews, and even fans who've stuck out the unpopular records seem to be calling it quits vociferously with this one. Talk about a whimper and not a bang. I guess my main issue is... I just can't understand why Buck and Mills would want to *write music like this*, unless they think it's somehow commercial, or a fulfillment their noble calling to cement their place in music history as beloved balladeers (in which case they fail miserably)... see, I can understand why Stipe would want to write and sing these types of songs, but since Buck and Mills by all accounts have little lyrical input, how could they *possibly* have slaved over this boring, torpid slab of mush and found any kind of enthusiasm for what they were doing? Why? Why, God, why? Christ. James is right, let's talk about the fucking Bunnymen. - -Rex Broome (guitar and vocal, One Of Many Bands With Better R.E.M.-Like Songs Than R.E.M.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:30:33 -0400 From: bisontentacle Subject: Re: Pop Fly '89 (not '93) one time at band camp, Miles Goosens (outdoorminer@gmail.com) said: >Second, even after B*ckner's error, there was still a Game Seven to >play. Seems like plenty more guys on the '86 Sox are to blame than >just the game-but-gimpy B*ckner. oh i know. like most other crutches, buckner's error is just a lazy-minded scapegoat. buckner and bartman, two great taste that taste great together. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:40:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Should we talk about the government? "Rex.Broome" wrote: > I guess my main issue is... I just can't understand why > Buck and Mills would want to *write music like this*, Well, they are more or less stuck with whichever tunes Stipe chooses to write lyrics for, and he has been leaning really heavily on the MOR stuff these last two albums; shit, they've made another MOR album with the drummer from _MINISTRY!!!!!_ MINISTRY!!! I also wonder how much of a factor Pat McCarthy's production has to do with this. This album and _Reveal_ are both really boringly shellacked with a kinda hazy shiny production that really emphasizes the MOR tendencies of the songs. Maybe they need to work with Ross Robinson. > unless they think it's somehow commercial, or a > fulfillment their noble calling to cement their place in > music history as beloved balladeers (in which case they > fail miserably)... see, I can understand why Stipe would > want to write and sing these types of songs, but since > Buck and Mills by all accounts have little lyrical input, > how could they *possibly* have slaved over this boring, > torpid slab of mush and found any kind of enthusiasm for > what they were doing? Why? Why, God, why? I remember a year ago Buck saying the record was sounding a lot like Document, which obviously this record does not. It makes me wonder if the problem isn't with the work they're doing but in choosing what stuff to put out. Maybe there's a really good album sitting around amongst the scraps, along with 3-4 of the stronger mid-tempo things. Buck also said when Monster came out that three straight acoustic records made you James Taylor for life which is way to ironic at the moment (though I agree with Rex's assessment of Up, so I wouldn't count it as part of the trip to JT). > Christ. James is right, let's talk about the fucking > Bunnymen. Any UK fegs going to the Christmas gigs? ...miserable bastards.... > -Rex Broome (guitar and vocal, One Of Many Bands With > Better R.E.M.-Like Songs Than R.E.M.) ===== "[The Bush administration] deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that's true. We were taken for a ride." -- President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Poland "'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, 06 Oct 2004 11:43:18 -0500 From: Subject: Tax on Men for Violence Against Women Proposed in Sweden [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=6418346 STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A group of Swedish parliamentarians proposed levying a "man tax" to cover the social cost of violence against women. "It must be obvious to all of us that society has a huge problem with male violence against women and that has a cost," Left Party deputy Gudrun Schyman told Swedish radio on Monday. "We must have a discussion where men understand they as a group have a responsibility," said Schyman, one of the party members to sign the motion for debate on the new tax. Sweden already has the highest taxes in the European Union as a percentage of gross domestic product to pay for its famous but hard-pushed cradle-to-grave welfare program. It is also one of the world's most advanced nations in terms of gender equality, but Schyman said in a headline-hitting 2002 speech that discrimination in Sweden followed "the same pattern" as in Afghanistan under the Taliban. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ So if Sweden is believed to be one of the most advanced nations in terms of gender equality, wouldn't that put the Taliban's social ideology on that same level, according to Schyman? Wow, I had no idea Swedes were so similar to the Taliban. But I guess this proposed man tax actually puts them one step ahead, or so might believe at least one Swedish political party deputy/parliamentarian. In case anyone was wondering, Schyman is a de facto commi and was the leader of the Swedish Left Party until she was charged with making illicit tax deductions in 2003. Apparently though, she is still a member of the Swedish Parliament. gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:43:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: Free music, as in beer Matt Sewell wrote: > Heh - The Jennifers - that rings a bell... it's actually > what Supergrass used to be called. In fact I do believe > I saw the Jennifers c.1992. A larger line-up than > Supergrass... all nice geezers, though just a little > up themselves. 2/3 of Supergrass I think. Put out a single on Nude, best known for being Suede's label at the time (probably still), "Just Got Back Today," which was along with Radiohead's "Creep" seemed to be the two big import discoveries on Live 105 (in SF) for 1992. Both songs got a lot of airplay, "Creep" with f-word intact. Nice song, though doesn't necessarily sound that much like Supergrass. EP's pretty decent too. ===== "[The Bush administration] deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that's true. We were taken for a ride." -- President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Poland "'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, 6 Oct 2004 11:44:25 -0500 From: Bret Subject: What did I miss? I left for about 3 years (or more, I can't remember now) to do some work in places where email was impossible. So, I've cut my hair and beard each of 3 plus years, and I feel almost human again. The question now is: What did I miss? hehehe hey folks.. its good to be back. - -b - -- - --Bret Bolton ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:52:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Pop Fly '89 (not '93) bisontentacle wrote: > oh i know. like most other crutches, buckner's error is > just a lazy-minded scapegoat. > > buckner and bartman, two great taste that taste great > together. When did Bartman have a very good Major League career that's overshadowed by his scapegoat moment? Of course, I want Jim Mecir's club footed gimpy ass in the guillotine right now, so .... ===== "[The Bush administration] deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that's true. We were taken for a ride." -- President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Poland "'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: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:26:45 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: other new stuff Blatzy: > I'm not going to buy Spooked. I sampled everything on ITunes and it just > sounds like the most boring CD ever recorded. Oh no it's not... I'll let you borrow "Around the Sun" if you wanna hear some real heavy duty boringness. Yeah, I know I need to get over it and move on... Hey, how about them there Vice-Presidential debates? - -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, 06 Oct 2004 09:40:46 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: Any comments on... Jason > I'm not exactly sure if saying "it's not a Theremin, it's an > Electro-Theremin" is the same as saying "it's not a guitar, it's an > electric guitar" or not... Clearly not! It's more like the difference between a guitar and and electro-guitar. - -Rex Broome (guitar and vocal, The Couriers (Secular)* ) *Because I am not one of these bastards... and I shall now have to have them eliminated... - -- _______________________________________________ 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, 6 Oct 2004 10:50:14 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Any comments on... On Oct 5, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Aaron Mandel wrote: > Other new discs: I got Spooked today and have only listened once; > several > of the songs sounded quiet and acoustic in a different way than Luxor, > so > I have hope, but gosh, our boy just doesn't have all that good a voice > for > mellow songs. Is this a new thing, or did I never notice? > I thought of this yesterday when "I Used To Say I Love You" popped up on the random-play. These days we get a lot more of the whisper-y voice as opposed to the more robust voice of old. - -tc p.s. Good on James for the "Sleeping Knights of Jesus" reference! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:56:38 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: Green You're obviously forgetting about "Stand." Speaking of worst REM songs ever.... Eb Np: eels/Shootenanny - -----Original Message----- I think the reason it didn't have a great reaction amongst REM fans was that it doesn't seem so great stood next to Document (which I think is an astonishingly great album) and because it was the first REM album (certainly over here) that managed to have mass appeal. Cheers Matt ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:54:06 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: What did I miss? A lot of deaths, and multiple threads about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and Quail missed winning a Nobel Prize yet again. Eb - -----Original Message----- The question now is: What did I miss? - -- - --Bret Bolton ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:30:19 -0700 From: Vendren Subject: Re: Pop Song '89 (not '93) From: "Matt Sewell" > I thought Green was superb when it first came out, but perhaps that was > the first REM my 17-year-old ears had heard at that stage... though I'd > still defend it and say it was largely under-rated. Love the pop songs, > it's shiny without being over-produced and like the mandolin shimmer on a > couple of the songs... I listened to it fairly recently (Chrissy like the > album a lot) and I enjoyed it without any undue reliance on nostalgia. I like "Green." I don't rank it with their IRS albums, but then I don't think any of their stuff with Warner's does. I actually like "Green" a bit more than "Out Of Time." I think "Out Of Time's" best songs are better than "Green's" best songs, but "Out Of Time's" worst songs are much worse than anything on "Green." I especially like the first two and last two tracks. Palle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:29:07 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Pop Song '89 (not '93) On Oct 5, 2004, at 5:24 PM, bisontentacle wrote: > one time at band camp, Miles Goosens said: > >> (Y'know the ball rolling through Bill Buckner's wickets, that >> highlight you see any time the Sox are in the postseason or anywhere >> close to it? That was the year.) > > okay, i'm a pretty lax listowner but you sometimes have to lay down > the law. going forward, under no circumstances shall bill b*ckner's > name be mentioned on this list. end of discussion. > Best...World Series...ever. - -mookie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:37:16 -0700 From: Vendren Subject: Re: other new stuff From: "Rex Broome" > Hey, how about them there Vice-Presidential debates? > > -Rex I thought the debate was about as interesting as "Around The Sun." "Around The Sun" gets the edge though, by virtue of being shorter. Palle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:43:18 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Pitchfork doesn't review Spooked... ... and neither do these guys, but they're funny not doing so... http://www.somethingawful.com/fake/richdork/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:47:54 -0700 From: Vendren Subject: Re: Green > You're obviously forgetting about "Stand." Speaking of worst REM songs > ever.... > > Eb I accuse REM of having a time machine. Because "Stand" is an hilarious parody of the their later records. For such good use of a time machine I'm willing to like the song. Plus when I was a DJ and played "Stand" at college dances there would always be one or two drunk girls doing the "Stand" dance from the video. Hilarity would ensue. Palle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:56:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Pitchfork doesn't review Spooked... On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Rex.Broome wrote: > ... and neither do these guys, but they're funny not doing so... > > http://www.somethingawful.com/fake/richdork/ I try not to take anti-Pitchfork jabs personally, but coming from Something Awful, who gives a fuck? I'm not even sure the gag rings true to me... When Sub Pop did the same thing a few months ago, it was at least kind of funny: http://www.subpop.com/features/pdork/ a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:13:11 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: RE: Pitchfork doesn't review Spooked... Aaron: >>I try not to take anti-Pitchfork jabs personally, but coming from >>Something Awful, who gives a fuck? I'm not even sure the gag rings true to >>me... I'm not even familiar with the umbrella site... particularly lame? No offense intended. Just bored. >>When Sub Pop did the same thing a few months ago, it was at least kind of >>funny: http://www.subpop.com/features/pdork/ Certainly the "recently reviewed" gag on the Sub Pop version is vastly superior... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:55:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: RE: Pitchfork doesn't review Spooked... On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Rex.Broome wrote: > I'm not even familiar with the umbrella site... particularly lame? No > offense intended. Just bored. Every few months, I review their "Photoshop Phriday" submissions. Definitely a whole lot of hit and miss... some really juvenile stuff or just poking fun at the same couple of things over and over and over. But I thought the recent "Unlikely Movie Prequels" was hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing at some of them. Parker: With no power comes fairly limited responsibility. Oh dear. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:00:40 -0500 From: Bret Subject: Pitchfork Media So, whats the deal with Pitchfork Media? Last I read here, we were all reading their best of 80's list. Now it seems as if there is a swelling against them. story? anyone? - -- - --Bret Bolton ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:25:39 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: Pitchfork Media Bret: > So, whats the deal with Pitchfork Media? > > Last I read here, we were all reading their best of 80's list. Now it > seems as if there is a swelling against them. More importantly... you've been off the list for three years... ...and yet I remember the Pitchfork '80's thread... ...so does that mean... ...I've been *back* on this list for three years? Heavens. At least five or six of the best albums of the '80's have come out since then! - -Rex np. & case in point: Interpol, Antics - -- _______________________________________________ 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, 6 Oct 2004 21:48:52 -0500 From: steve Subject: Boo! (NR) - - Steve __________ The Bushies hail pre-emption as a brilliant innovation by The Man, except when they're downplaying it as nothing new to worry about. - Michael Kinsley ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:16:50 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Pitchfork doesn't review Spooked... On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:13:11 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: > >>When Sub Pop did the same thing a few months ago, it was at least kind of > >>funny: http://www.subpop.com/features/pdork/ > > Certainly the "recently reviewed" gag on the Sub Pop version is vastly superior... I liked the "Dean's List" quite a bit. The Something Awful site, however, does offer Rex a vast variety of band names. - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:39:58 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Pitchfork doesn't review Spooked... On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:56:22 -0400 (EDT), Aaron Mandel wrote: > I try not to take anti-Pitchfork jabs personally, but coming from > Something Awful, who gives a fuck? I'm not even sure the gag rings true to > me... SA seemed, uh, aptly named from what I saw...but this graphic (from "truth in advertising" album cover gimmick) is pretty witty (it's that band that's half Rage Against the Machine and half Soundgarden): - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:40:03 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Pixies in Nashville, 10/6/04 September 30th, 2004 My Dear Chuck, I hope this epistle finds you in good health and greater spirit. I hear that your second journey around these Great United States of America with your boon companions of yore is going fantastically well. In a few short days from now, you will be visiting my adopted home city of Nashville, capital of the sixteenth state, and you will be trodding the boards of the Mother Church of Country Music. I have expended much treasure to acquire two spaces in a pew for this event. Up to this point, I have willingly given of my specie, my modest skills with a pen, and my time in favor of your cause, never asking anything in return. But never before have I given quite so much specie. Given these circumstances, I do not think it too forward to ask for one mere favor: When you take the stage at the Ryman Auditorium, I know you will be playing many of the tunes your impish troupe made famous among one and all, some of which you may well be under contractual obligation to include. However, if you could find room among them to include a more numerous than usual selection from the album I and few others hold dearest, TROMPE LE MONDE, I would be forever grateful and consider my expendature a wise investment indeed. Thank you for considering my humble request. Give our warmest regards to the former Mrs. John Murphy, and my wife Melissa and I will be seeing you in a week's time. Sincerely yours, Miles K. Goosens ================= October 5th, 2004 Dear Mr. Goosens, I read your missive of 30 September with great interest. I was not aware that your species had purchased any copies of my former and current group's swan song, much less that one of you had antennae trained on its unique wavelength lo these many years. As you have surmised, there are some limitations encumbering our setlist, though we work to keep things varied within those strictures. We often play the required songs in a different order, and we do have a number of slots per performance that we can and do change from one evening to the next. We would not want to disappoint fans of our other releases who attend your show, but I think we can see our way clear to devoting no fewer than four of our discretionary selections to accomodating your kind request. Would you mind if one of them was not penned by us? I hope not, because that's one that we have worked up. Don't hold your breath for us doing "Bird Dream of Olympus Mons," but I think you will be pleased come tomorrow night. Kim sends her love back to you and Melissa and hopes that you will have several spare lighters on hand this time -- bet you thought she didn't remember that '92 Vandy gig, didn't you? Hah! Lots of specie in attendance that night. yours for galactic freedom, Charles Michael Kitridge Thompson IV p.s.: Fuck you, Tom Clark! ================= And lo and behold, tonight's setlist included: * U-Mass * Subbacultcha * Planet of Sound * Head On Pure bliss. Thanks, Chip! Appreciated the early start time, too! later, Miles ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #282 ********************************