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fegmaniax-digest      Thursday, January 27 2005      Volume 14 : Number 021



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Psalm 69 or Star 69?                          [Eb <elbroome@earthlink.net>]
  RE: Terry Jones's War On The  ["Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucro]
  Re: Terry Jones's War On The "War On Terror"  ["A Wonderful Human Person" ]
  Re: Terry Jones's War On The "War On Terror"  [Eb <elbroome@earthlink.net>]
  death penalty info requested                  [Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu>]
  RE: death penalty info requested  ["Maximilian Lang" <maximlang@hotmail.co]
  Re: Psalm 69 or Star 69?                 [Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>]
  Re: Psalm 69 or Star 69?                 [Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>]
  Re: Psalm 69 or Star 69?                      [Eb <elbroome@earthlink.net>]
  Re: VCR alert                       [The Great Quail <quail@libyrinth.com>]
  Re: VCR alert                            [Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>]
  Re: VCR alert                              [Jeff <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  First Stereolab album reissue  ["Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucr]

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:32:32 -0800
From: Eb <elbroome@earthlink.net>
Subject: Psalm 69 or Star 69?

NEW DRUMMER JOINS REM
   The members of REM have finally found a full-time replacement for
departed drummer BILL BERRY - former MINISTRY star BILL REIFLEN.
   Berry left the band in 1997, and his role had been filled by a
string of temporary drummers since, most notably by former BECK rocker
JOEY WARONKER, reports MTV.
   Reiflen played drums on REM's latest effort, 2004's AROUND THE SUN.

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:40:19 -0500
From: "Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com>
Subject: RE: Terry Jones's War On The

> >Brian Nupp wrote:
> >> 
> >> I think you mean: "There are degrees, *little* man." 
> >
> >Are you alluding to that thing that Eddie used to rave about?
> >
> >  Stewart
> 
> Yes. I just recently found a disc Eddie sent me full of this stuff.
> It's actually kind of scary to listen to!
> 
> -Nuppy
> 
> PS: Dammit! I ordered 50 kung fu movies for $50 2 weeks ago and I
> just received the package today...opening it to find 50 misc CDs like:
> Music From The Titanic
> Motley Crue (from 1994)
> Big Daddy Cane

 Too bad it wasn't AR Kane

> Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn (hmm this could be good, but not for $50)

Not bad from some of the songs I have heard on the radio.

> Lassie Original Motion Picture Soundtrack...

I seem to recall a group called The Courage of Lassie!

> I want my Kung Fu movies!

 Are we talking Street Fighter/Return of the Street Fighter, Sonny
Chiba type Kung Fu movies? He looms like a badass from the few scenes
of Street Fighter that was in the movie True Romance.

Michael B.

NP Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:00:59 -0800
From: "A Wonderful Human Person" <tews@drizzle.com>
Subject: Re: Terry Jones's War On The "War On Terror"

<There are degrees, silly man. I checked that URL...that previous paste
was LONG.>

it was 15k, while the terry jones piece was 20k.  so, i dunno, dude.  i
think you kind of make up the rules as you go.


<I think you mean: "There are degrees, *little* man." ...but you have to
say it in a really drunkard smoke throated old man's voice...>

to bring it full circle, we have eb to thank for turning me on to *Shut Up,
Little Man!* in the first place.  i should *hope* that i would have
discovered it independently.  but, for that act of kindness alone (well,
and also, natch, for sending me the picture located at
<URL:http://feedthefish.org/pictures/backgrounds/massage.jpg>) i shall
always be most thankful.


<Are you alluding to that thing that Eddie used to rave about?>

"used to"?  tee-hee, here's a funny little anecdote.  i played the record
at work quite frequently, and it eventually sunk in with the chef, who
would often say something (to my everlasting delight) along the lines of,
"hey, cocksucker!  why didn't you get the half & half, i told you?"


<Yes. I just recently found a disc Eddie sent me full of this stuff. It's
actually kind of scary to listen to!>

brian may have forgotten this, but when i first sent him that disc, he
thought that it was *my* field recording, and e-mailed to ask me if i was
okay.  i tried to play along, but he eventually found out the true nature
of the recordings.


speaking of movies, i'm surprised i haven't seen any references anywhere to
Doctor Zhivago with regards to the iced-over neighbourhoods in
massachusetts.

also, is it true, as claimed in the making-of documentary, the *Wizard Of
Oz* has been seen by more people that any other movie?  i had thought that
i'd read somewhere that *Salt Of The Earth* held that honour.


KEN "Come to me!  Knock on my fuckin' door!" THE KENSTER

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:17:58 -0800
From: Eb <elbroome@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Terry Jones's War On The "War On Terror"

> <There are degrees, silly man. I checked that URL...that previous paste
> was LONG.>
>
> it was 15k, while the terry jones piece was 20k.  so, i dunno, dude.  i
> think you kind of make up the rules as you go.

And that one was also too long. But at least it had more relevance to 
the list, since it had the Python connection.

Eb

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:15:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu>
Subject: death penalty info requested

Hi y'all!

My daughter is doing an essay on the death penalty and wants to find some
stats on overturned convictions.  We were able to find some information at
the Amnesty International website.  Does anyone have any other ideas where
to look or good key words for a google search?

The snow here in Boston is mindboggling.  Since my husband has a herniated
disc, my son just had a tooth extracted, and my daughter only weighs 75
pounds, all the shoveling has been left to me.  If it weren't for the
Patriots and Red Sox, I'd get the fuck out of here FOREVER!!!

Jill

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:33:56 -0500
From: "Maximilian Lang" <maximlang@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: death penalty info requested

>From: Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu>
>To: fegmaniax@smoe.org
>Subject: death penalty info requested
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:15:32 -0500 (EST)

>If it weren't for the
>Patriots and Red Sox, I'd get the fuck out of here FOREVER!!!

Hey, you know...nevermind.

               Max

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:06:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Psalm 69 or Star 69?

Eb <elbroome@earthlink.net> wrote:
> NEW DRUMMER JOINS REM
>    The members of REM have finally found a full-time
> replacement for departed drummer BILL BERRY - former
> MINISTRY star BILL REIFLEN.
>    Berry left the band in 1997, and his role had been
> filled by a string of temporary drummers since, most
> notably by former BECK rocker JOEY WARONKER, reports MTV.

Waronker
Rieflin (as I've always seen it spelled)

I don't know that I'd call that a "string" of temporary
drummers.

>    Reiflen played drums on REM's latest effort, 2004's
> AROUND THE SUN.

Where the Ministry influence was so relevant....I'd rather
they gave Stringfellow and McCaughey full-time status, so
they could help, you know, write some tunes that are worth
a crap....


=====
"I had naively believed all these many years that Americans genuinely believed in freedom of speech. [But I] discovered there that when you made an utterance that was remotely contrary to what the White House was saying, then they attacked you. For a South African the deja vu was frightening. They behaved exactly the same way that used to happen here [during apartheid]: vilifying those who are putting forward a slightly different view." -- Desmond Tutu


		
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:10:58 -0800
From: Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Psalm 69 or Star 69?

Jeff D:
> >    Reiflen played drums on REM's latest effort, 2004's
> > AROUND THE SUN.
> 
> Where the Ministry influence was so relevant....I'd rather
> they gave Stringfellow and McCaughey full-time status, so
> they could help, you know, write some tunes that are worth
> a crap....

Bring back Holsapple.

Or shoot the damned horse.

Q: Does this mean Rieflin is gonna start getting songwriting credits,
per the band's historical credit arrangement?

A: Not if he knows what's good for him.

- -Rex

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:41:25 -0800
From: Eb <elbroome@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Psalm 69 or Star 69?

>>    Berry left the band in 1997, and his role had been
>> filled by a string of temporary drummers since, most
>> notably by former BECK rocker JOEY WARONKER, reports MTV.
>
> Waronker
> Rieflin (as I've always seen it spelled)
>
> I don't know that I'd call that a "string" of temporary
> drummers.

The sentence implies there were more than two. Waronker was only the 
"most notable" substitute. For one, Barrett Martin filled in too, right?

Eb

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:44:36 -0500
From: The Great Quail <quail@libyrinth.com>
Subject: Re: VCR alert

> Maybe I'll get a TV someday ;) Doubt it, though; North American
> Television is rubbish.

Oh, Stewart and Rex, must you both join this tedious, humorless, pompous,
self-righteous cult? TV is just like books, movies, magazines, or any other
form of art and entertainment. Of course there's more crap than good stuff,
but that's a shabby reason to forsake the whole medium. Not own a
television? You might as well say, "I'm never reading another book." (Of
course, a statement like that doesn't fly as well at coffee-shop Kant
sing-a-longs, Noam Chomsky conventions, and Internet mailing lists.)

Rubbish? Why, HBO is reason enough to own a television, with The Sopranos,
The Wire, and Curb Your Enthusiasm; and to a lesser extent, Deadwood, Six
Feet Under, Entourage, the Ali G Show...

And then there's shows like West Wing, Lost, and Battlestar Galactica; not
to mention the Simpsons, Arrested Development, That 70s Show, and Raymond.

And this isn't even mentioning reruns of good shows....

Then of course there's the many other functions of a television, such as
playing Futurama DVDs, watching concert videos, hosting one's Xbox, and
watching the BBC. 

Ah, sweet television. I swear one day my child will look like you....

Anyway, with all respect to Rex and Stewart, I have to say this -- I find
that when people proudly assert they don't own a television set, they are
more concerned with projecting a particular image than with really partaking
in any kind of meaningful dialogue about art, entertainment, or pop culture.
It just sounds insufferably pompous to me -- like running a James Joyce
site, or listening to Rush.

- --Quail

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:56:42 -0800
From: Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: VCR alert

> Anyway, with all respect to Rex and Stewart, I have to say this -- I find
> that when people proudly assert they don't own a television set, they are
> more concerned with projecting a particular image than with really partaking
> in any kind of meaningful dialogue about art, entertainment, or pop culture.

Well, in my case it's more a financial concern than anything: can't
afford to buy one, can't afford cable thereafter, certainly don't need
the temptation of buying all those tasty DVD's that keep coming out. 
I know there's good TV out there and I've posted plenty about it over
the years.  But I also missed the beginning of the fall season, too,
so I'm out of the loop anyway.

It's also that, for this particular moment in my life, living without
TV seems the way to go.  I'd rather read.  Part of it may be that in
the relationship that's just ended, my former partner watched a lot
more TV than me, and enjoyed some things that weren't to my taste...
and also enjoyed channel-surfing (watching TV just to watch TV, which
I do find a bit tedious), So I guess I'm making up for being exposed
to more TV than I wanted by going without for a while.  No true
disdain for the medium is intended, nor am I trying to style myself as
anything other than a guy with little money and less spare time,
making a decision about how to entertain himself within those
constraints.

I still do listen to Television, though!

- -Rex "Insufferably Pompous would be my middle name if my middle name
weren't Rex" Broome

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:58:20 -0600
From: Jeff <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: VCR alert

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:44:36 -0500, The Great Quail <quail@libyrinth.com> wrote:

> It just sounds insufferably pompous to me -- like running a James Joyce
> site, or listening to Rush.

Surely no one here does anything like that?

- -- 

...Jeff 

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:48:40 -0500
From: "Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com>
Subject: First Stereolab album reissue

*UPCOMING RELEASES*
February 22
Stereolab - Switched On (reissue, Too Pure/Beggars Group)

Hmmm, I might have to get this one.

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