From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #367 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, December 27 2004 Volume 13 : Number 367 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: 'tis the season... ["michael wells" ] REAP ["Maximilian Lang" ] Another NFL REAP [Steve Talkowski ] Random query [Eb ] Re: Random query [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Random query [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Random query [Eb ] Re: Random query [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Random query [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Random query [Jeff Dwarf ] Tragically hip [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Spooked Vinyl ["Maximilian Lang" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:51:22 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: 'tis the season... Carrie: > The scarey part is that it started in San Francisco, oh about 14 or 15 > years ago. The original idea was to go to Macys and have so many Santas > just before Christmas that it confused people. Heh...now that's right up MY street. The golf club I worked at near Myrtle Beach used to get a group of twenty-four Canadians dressed as Santa's down each December. This must have been in '92 or '93, and apparently it had been going on for years...the stories were legion. We usually caught them in the morning however, and while drinking like fish they were generally well behaved. There's some serious mirth in watching, at 8am over a cup of coffee in the clubhouse, a cigar-chomping, beer-swilling, pillow-up-the-old-Santa-suit brain-dead Canuck miss a delicate two-footer and airmail his putter into the trees. Michael "especially when the caddie is dressed like an elf" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:51:31 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: REAP Football great Reggie White. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:34:17 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Another NFL REAP Dan Marino's single-season touchdown pass record. P.S. Go Jets! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:25:45 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Random query I was trying to think of the top "white" covers of Motown songs, and coming up pretty empty. All I can easily come up with are CCR's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," the Stones' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and (by both the Beatles and Flying Lizards) "Money." Oh wait, and add the Beatles' "You Really Got a Hold on Me" and the Stones' "Just My Imagination" as well. Others? There are probably a few more Stones/Motown covers, but I just don't feel like sifting through their catalog right now. "Mercy Mercy" and "Hitch Hike" are also Motown, eh? Something else from one of those later albums which I don't own? (My collection stops with Some Girls.) Merry 26th, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:57:25 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Random query - -- Eb is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Dezember 2004 15:25:45 Uhr -0800 regarding Random query: > I was trying to think of the top "white" covers of Motown songs, and > coming up pretty empty. All I can easily come up with are CCR's "I Heard > It Through the Grapevine," the Stones' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and (by > both the Beatles and Flying Lizards) "Money." Oh wait, and add the > Beatles' "You Really Got a Hold on Me" and the Stones' "Just My > Imagination" as well. > > Others? Phil Collins, "You Can't Hurry Love" - -- Sebastian Hagedorn EhrenfeldgC Subject: Re: Random query Eb wrote: > I was trying to think of the top "white" covers of Motown > songs, and coming up pretty empty. All I can easily come > up with are CCR's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," > the Stones' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and (by both the > Beatles and Flying Lizards) "Money." Oh wait, and add > the Beatles' "You Really Got a Hold on Me" and the > Stones' "Just My Imagination" as well. > > Others? There are probably a few more Stones/Motown > covers, but I just don't feel like sifting through their > catalog right now. "Mercy Mercy" and "Hitch Hike" are > also Motown, eh? Something else from one of those > later albums which I don't own? (My collection stops with > Some Girls.) The Afghan Whigs "My World is Empty Without You/I Hear a Symphony" Love and Rockets "Ball of Confusion" Madder Rose "The Love You Save" Faith No More "Easy" The Who "Heatwave" The English Beat "Tears of a Clown" (granted, they're half-black, but Wakeling is white) The second half of Soft Cell "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go?" ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 17:15:34 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Random query > Love and Rockets "Ball of Confusion" > The Who "Heatwave" > The English Beat "Tears of a Clown" Ack. Should have thought of those. Especially considering that I was just listening to the My Generation album, a week ago! Meanwhile, I think my egg nog must have been dosed, because I thought I just saw someone nominating Phil Collins' "You Can't Hurry Love" as a good Motown cover. Come on...you didn't see me citing Claudine's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," did you? ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 17:30:18 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Random query Eb wrote: > Meanwhile, I think my egg nog must have been dosed, > because I thought I just saw someone nominating Phil > Collins' "You Can't Hurry Love" as a good Motown cover. > Come on...you didn't see me citing Claudine's "Ain't > No Mountain High Enough," did you? ;) Never underestimate the German sense of humor.... ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 03:04:27 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Random query - -- Jeff Dwarf is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Dezember 2004 17:30:18 Uhr -0800 regarding Re: Random query: > Eb wrote: >> Meanwhile, I think my egg nog must have been dosed, >> because I thought I just saw someone nominating Phil >> Collins' "You Can't Hurry Love" as a good Motown cover. >> Come on...you didn't see me citing Claudine's "Ain't >> No Mountain High Enough," did you? ;) > > Never underestimate the German sense of humor.... Actually I was serious. I don't really know much about Motown, as it never has been as popular over here as in the US. So for me the Phil Collins version was the first one I heard. Hm, another on from about the same time as Phil Collins would be Bowie's and Jagger's "Dancing In The Streets". That's another one I heard covered first. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn EhrenfeldgC Subject: Re: Random query Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > Jeff Dwarf is rumored to have > mumbled on 26. Dezember 2004 17:30:18 Uhr -0800 > regarding Re: Random query: > > Eb wrote: > >> Meanwhile, I think my egg nog must have been dosed, > >> because I thought I just saw someone nominating Phil > >> Collins' "You Can't Hurry Love" as a good Motown > >> cover. Come on...you didn't see me citing > >> Claudine's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," did > >> you? ;) > > > > Never underestimate the German sense of humor.... > > Actually I was serious. I don't really know much about > Motown, as it never has been as popular over here as in > the US. So for me the Phil Collins version was the first > one I heard. That's truly horrifying. And I don't even like The Supremes that much. > Hm, another on from about the same time as Phil Collins > would be Bowie's and Jagger's "Dancing In The Streets". > That's another one I heard covered first. That's even worse. That Bowie keeps putting on _Best Of_ compilations has to be his sick sense of humor. Or maybe the residuals are still going to the various LiveAid charities. ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:49:16 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Tragically hip No, not the band. I've only heard of them and currently curse them, because they poison my Google search for what the expression actually means. All I've found on Wikipedia is that "(the band) took their name from a skit in the movie Elephant Parts by Michael Nesmith of The Monkees". That doesn't help ... I'm curious because I am reading this NYT article on the MLA conference (sorry, registration necessary): The author uses the term several times, e.g.: 'Past conventions have yielded papers with titles that were rife with bad puns, cute pop-culture references and an adolescent preoccupation with sex, from "Victorian Buggery" to "Bambi on Top" and the tragically hip "Judith Butler Got Me Tenure (but I Owe My Job to K. D. Lang): High Theory, Pop Culture, and Some Thoughts About the Role of Literature in Contemporary Queer Studies."' 'Tragic hipness, multicultural agendizing and an almost abject embrace of low/popular culture converge in titles like " 'Dude! Your Dress Is So Cute!' Patterns of Semantic Widening in 'Dude,' " an entire session dedicated to papers on Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," "Urban Expressionism: Theater, Ritual, and the Hip-Hop Generation's Black Arts Movement," "Utopia in the Borderlands; or, Long Live El Vez the King" (El Vez is a Latino Elvis impersonator), and "A Pynch in Time: The Postmodernity of Prenational Philadelphia in Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon and Mark Knopfler's 'Sailing to Philadelphia' " (Mr. Knopfler is a rocker best known for wanting his MTV).' So does it mean that someone tries so hard to be hip that they become a tragic figure?? Another word I've stumbled over recently (also in the quoted article) is "trifecta". From the context I assumed it must mean something like "made up from three parts", but according to Merriam-Webster it's a Spanish-American term for a bet where you have to predict the first three runners in a race correctly. What gives? Semantic shift? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn EhrenfeldgC Subject: Spooked Vinyl I forget who was complaining about their copy of Spooked on vinyl. I recently got a brand new stylus for my Beogram and broke the seal on my own copy...What a piece of crap. 180 grams of bad pressing. Still, probably better than the scratchy WB albums(Mossy Liquor and Storefront Vinyl). It just seeems to have odd areas of defect or something, I don't know. Max ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #367 ********************************