From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #290 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, October 14 2004 Volume 13 : Number 290 Today's Subjects: ----------------- my friend put out a record [2fs ] RE: Best birthday death? ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: u2nes ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Best birthday death? [Christopher Gross ] Re: Best birthday death? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Mondegreens and Blake Snake [James Dignan ] RE: Best birthday death? ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: Best birthday death? [Rex Broome ] Re: u2nes ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Best birthday death? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: u2nes [Dolph Chaney ] Re: u2nes ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: u2nes [Dolph Chaney ] Re: Best birthday death? ["Michael Wells" ] Re: u2nes [2fs ] RE: Birthday deaths ["Charlotte Tupman" ] Re: Best birthday death? [Jeff Dwarf ] Pixies [Bret ] Re: Best birthday death? [Christopher Gross ] Re: Best birthday death? / Hee-Haw [Rex Broome ] Re: Birthday deaths [Rex Broome ] RE: Pixies ["Peter Bernard" ] Re: Best birthday death? [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:33:57 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: my friend put out a record ...and you should all buy it cuz it's good. John Sharples has played with folks like Matt Keating and Hub Moore (and was very nearly a drummer for the Lo*d F*mily), and now - in _Ringo_-stylee, he's corralled those two and some known and relatively unknown others to put out an album featuring not only his drumming but his guitaring, bassing, vocaling, and occasional pianoing. (Unlike most drummers, he can actually do those things.) Plenty of other mostly Brooklyn-based all-stars play on this record - they're underground now, but buy this now and in ten years you can lord it over your friends as those musicians are all famous and walking around snooting everyone else. If you go here - - - you'll see the CD's brilliant cover concept, which also gives you a sense of Sharples' influences. Since John's not a songwriter, he asked, coaxed, coerced, and in some cases threatened several songwriter friends into letting him do their songs (in many cases, previously unrecorded songs), including the aforementioned Matt Keating and Hub Moore, as well as Jules Verdone, Grahame Davies (The Crowd Scene), Michael Culhane (ex-Circle Sky/Circus Guy), Paula Carino, Bradley Skaught - plus Elvis, the Flamin' Groovies, George Harrison, Michael Nesmith, and about a zillion bands ("Lonesome Tears in My Eyes"). Okay, Sharples didn't really coerce Harrison and Presley to do their songs. Plus, if you have kids, there's a two-song train medley! As you might guess, you can buy this at . For promoting this, I get Sharples' soul - although I have no idea what to do with it. - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:35:55 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Best birthday death? From: Jeff Dwarf [mailto:munki1972@yahoo.com] >As for Ella dying: She was 79. She had a full life. She was >a legend. She no doubt did most of the things she ever >wanted to do. So her death was surely sad, but not tragic. >Unless there are some horrible circumstances of her death >I'm forgetting. I have all of Ella's Soundbooks on CD except for the Duke Ellington one. I almost gagged having to put up with listening to Rod Stewart's awful versions at my mom's house. I am sure Ella would as well if she was still alive. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:39:43 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: u2nes > Tom Clark wrote: >> Any comments on the U2 iPod commercial/video? On Oct 13, 2004, at 12:16 PM, Ken Weingold wrote: > Huh. At least in NYC, I don't think Apple needs any help whatsoever > on the iPod front. It seems like everyone and their mother has one. > Any time I'm on the subway I swear I can pick out at least a couple of > people within 10 feet of me that has one. Often more. The other > night I picked out 5 within view. I used up my yearly employee discount exclusively on friends in NY. It must be the per capita iPod capitol of the world. On Oct 13, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > Ladies and gentlemen, the selachian has been vaulted ... > Had to think about that one for a second, but it turns out to be a valid observation. Reminds me of those yellow Lance Armstrong bracelets everybody's wearing these days. Does it mean I'm in favor of ball cancer if I don't have one? Wear the ribbon, Kramer!!! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:41:20 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: u2nes Ken Weingold wrote: > > Huh. At least in NYC, I don't think Apple needs any help whatsoever > on the iPod front. It seems like everyone and their mother has one. Same here on the TTC. They're everywhere, and everyone has them. I've only ever seen one other h120 user. Now, that's exclusivity. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:51:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Best birthday death? On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, steve wrote: > > The Battle of Bannockburn is the -655th anniversary of my birthday. > > > My birthday is December 7. My uncle Pat's is September 11. I finally checked Wikipedia, which says I share a birthday on Oct. 27 with such folks as John Cleese, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, John Gotti, President Lula of Brazil, Teddy Roosevelt, and Erasmus of Rotterdam, as well as the US Navy and the New York City subway. Musical birthdays include Simon Le Bon, Scott Weiland and Kelly Osbourne. No mass-casualty events that I can see, but the birth of Matt Drudge was certainly a step back for humanity. (Of course, he might say the same of me.) Just 186 years younger than Paganini, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:31:14 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Best birthday death? May 24, the sinking of HMS Hood. Max _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar  get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:25:42 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Mondegreens and Blake Snake I missed one of Alice's favourite personal mondegreens, that Who mini-opera which starts "Herman's been gone..." 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: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:52:43 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Best birthday death? Tom Clark wrote: > Largest Tragedies on June 15: > b* 1969 - Hee Haw debuts on CBS television, quickly > becoming an > institution. Of all the cruelties man can impose on other men, this is perhaps the greatest. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:57:30 -0700 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Best birthday death? >>- Hee Haw debuts on CBS television, quickly > > becoming an > > institution. > > Of all the cruelties man can impose on other men, this is perhaps the greatest. Now, we can all poke fun, but I would posit that, taken on their own merits, both Roy Clark and Buck Owens kick their own unique brands of ass. Rex "Pickin' and a Grinnin'" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:06:34 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: u2nes Tom Clark wrote: > > Reminds me of those yellow Lance Armstrong bracelets > everybody's wearing these days. I had to google this, and my response is: 'Hard' is NOT an adverb, people. I posit that Zimmy or Major Taylor were better riders. > Does it mean I'm in favor of ball > cancer if I don't have one? I'd recommend the Canadian mockumentary FUBAR for a full and frank discussion of ball cancer. give'r Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:34:17 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Best birthday death? Rex Broome wrote: > > Now, we can all poke fun, but I would posit that, taken on their own > merits, both Roy Clark and Buck Owens kick their own unique brands of > ass. and Grandpa Jones was one of the finest frailers ever. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:50:33 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: u2nes At 07:06 PM 10/13/2004, Stewart C. Russell wrote: >'Hard' is NOT an adverb, people. b-b-b-b-but... what if you're describing the way one rocks? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:16:55 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: u2nes Dolph Chaney wrote: > > b-b-b-b-but... what if you're describing the way one rocks? I think you rock more than hardly, Dolph. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:27:30 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: u2nes At 09:16 PM 10/13/2004, Stewart C. Russell wrote: >Dolph Chaney wrote: >>b-b-b-b-but... what if you're describing the way one rocks? > >I think you rock more than hardly, Dolph. Heh. Easy for you to say -- you don't have any of my CDs. :) But thank you! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:22:23 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: Best birthday death? Stewart sagely observes: > and Grandpa Jones was one of the finest frailers ever. Something of his astonishing legacy occasionally crops up in churches and music stores in the form of guitar wizard Doyle Dykes, who studied under/played with/learned bad jokes from old Grandpa. See Doyle if at all humanly possible. More at www.doyledykes.com Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:17:12 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: u2nes On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:06:34 -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > I had to google this, and my response is: 'Hard' is NOT an adverb, people. Uh...it is. As in "working hard." - -- Jeff - hardly working The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:46:51 +0100 From: "Charlotte Tupman" Subject: RE: Birthday deaths On August 27th: 1576 Titian dies of plague 1967 Brian Epstein dies of overdose 1979 (the day I was born) Lord Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, is blown up by the IRA 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in helicopter crash Charlotte _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:49:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Best birthday death? Maximilian Lang wrote: > May 24, the sinking of HMS Hood. April 13, 1873. Colfax Massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_Massacre ===== "[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: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:33:28 -0500 From: Bret Subject: Pixies Has anyone seen any shows on the Pixies tour? Was it any good? Are they using canes or walkers? I'm going the 19th (same day as the Elliott Smith release) just trying to get a feel for how its been. - -b - -- - --Bret Bolton ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:35:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Best birthday death? So am I the only one who didn't have some bloody massacre or enormous natural disaster on his birthday? This is quite out of character for me! - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:51:12 -0700 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Best birthday death? / Hee-Haw Michael: > Something of his astonishing legacy occasionally crops up in churches and > music stores in the form of guitar wizard Doyle Dykes, who studied > under/played with/learned bad jokes from old Grandpa. See Doyle if at all > humanly possible. More at www.doyledykes.com I'm sure I've mentioned before that Grandpa Jones was one of the few "names" (as opposed to "siblings of names") my dad's band performed with back in th' day. Jones was mystified by the extra frets on Mr. Jordan's Seeger Vega. Umm, Mr. Jordan was the banjo player in my dad's band, not the title character in the classic movie, but I call him Mr. Jordan because he was also the assistant principal at my middle school. - -Rex - -- "Maybe baby election twelve who I really am!" - -Miranda Mellbye Broome ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:43:28 -0700 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Birthday deaths Charlotte: > 1967 Brian Epstein dies of overdose > 1979 (the day I was born) Lord Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, is > blown up by the IRA Hmmm. Wasn't the Epstein surrogate character in The Rutles named... Leggy Mountbatten? Coincidence, or proof that Eric Idle has been dead since 1979? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:31:45 +0000 From: "Peter Bernard" Subject: RE: Pixies Easy there, camper, I'm as old as they are and my Dr. has recommended indefinite delay to my hip replacement surgery. Peter B. >From: Bret >Reply-To: Bret >To: The Black Crow >Subject: Pixies >Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:33:28 -0500 > >Has anyone seen any shows on the Pixies tour? > >Was it any good? > >Are they using canes or walkers? > >I'm going the 19th (same day as the Elliott Smith release) just trying >to get a feel for how its been. > >-b > > > >-- >--Bret Bolton ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:11:15 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Best birthday death? On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:35:26 -0400 (EDT), Christopher Gross wrote: > So am I the only one who didn't have some bloody massacre or enormous > natural disaster on his birthday? Okay, so who's going to say it first? No one? Ahem...uh...: "That is because, one might say in a jocular manner, that you are yourself the 'natural disaster' one might think of in conjunction with infamous events that fall upon your natal day. Yes, that is a funny joke. I am laughing now." In the future, I expect better performance from the rest of you. - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #290 ********************************