From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #22 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, January 28 2005 Volume 14 : Number 022 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: VCR alert ["Bachman, Michael" ] Cool Qawwali Sox [James Dignan ] Re: Cool Qawwali Sox ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: VCR alert ["Randalljr" ] Re: Psalm 69 or Star 69? [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: VCR alert ["Stewart C. Russell" ] RE: In case you didn't hear.... ["Maximilian Lang" ] reap [Eb ] reap [James Dignan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:57:08 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: VCR alert > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:44:36 -0500, The Great Quail > 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? The guy in the next cube over listens to Rush every Mon-Fri noon to 2 PM. I play my CD's loud enough to drown it out. Michael B. NP Dexter Gordon - Doin' Allright ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:40:51 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Cool Qawwali Sox > > 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. wonderful, IMHO... especially the crossover album he did with Michael brook (Night Song). Probably one of my top 20 albums. >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!!! A cool 20C today, a relief from the last few days. (Hey, I have to suffer from the "hot, hot, HOT!" comments when there's ice here), As to the Red Sox, yes, that's a good reason to stay. Now they've proved themselves, they may be able to manage a win *every* eighty years! 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: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:10:11 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Cool Qawwali Sox At 11:40 AM 1/28/2005 +1300, James Dignan wrote: >> > 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. > >wonderful, IMHO... especially the crossover album he did with Michael >brook (Night Song). Probably one of my top 20 albums. There was also another "crossover" album with Michael Brook before that titled "Mustt Mustt," which was only credited to Nusrat, which I prefer a little bit to "Night Song." Lots of beautiful Brookery on both. And, there was a remix album taking tracks from both, but I don't recall being very impressed by it. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:46:46 -0800 From: "Randalljr" Subject: Re: VCR alert > The guy in the next cube over listens to Rush every Mon-Fri > noon to 2 PM. I play my CD's loud enough to drown it out. > > Michael B. I continue to smoke cigarettes simply because it is a vice of my hero, Neil Peart. Vince ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:44:31 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Psalm 69 or Star 69? Eb wrote: > >> 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? Barrett Martin played various percussion instruments on _Up,_ but I specifically remember Buck saying when _Up_ came out that Waronker had done all the drumming, and that Martin had played other percussion and other instruments. And Rieflin took over for Waronker when he returned to working with Beck full-time. I wasn't going to trust an article where they never spelled Rieflin right to make the post-Berry R.E.M. drummer list. ===== "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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:24:35 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: VCR alert The Great Quail wrote: > > 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 I think you're generalising too much. We don't have a TV because: * when you've recently immigrated to a country, there are more important things to spend your money on. * Leaving the house at 7am, and getting back in at 8pm doesn't leave much time for television. We watch DVDs on the computer. As I used to play computer games professionally, I can't really face having a console. I get all the news I need from RSS feeds. We've got out of the habit of being "lookers-in". With so many channels, one is always convinced there's going to be something better, so you start flipping channels, and after five minutes you realise that there wasn't but you've lost the channel you were watching, or the programme's finished. And even in staunchly non-francophone Southern Ontario, it seems at least quarter of those channels are in French. So, Quail dear, don't you go waggling your little hmuh in disapproval of Rex and myself. We have our reasons. Oh, and Ali G j'd the s in about 2001 in the UK. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:53:49 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: RE: In case you didn't hear.... >From: "Bachman, Michael" >Subject: RE: In case you didn't hear.... >Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:18:18 -0500 > No Best Actor nomination for Paul Giamatti for Sideways? WTF! I agree, almost everyone in the film got a nomination but him! Supporting Actor, Supporting actress and also Director and film. The damn film is about his character, it makes no sense...not to mention it was a truly outstanding performance. Max ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:36:09 -0500 From: "Brian Nupp" Subject: RE: Terry Jones's War On The From: Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com >> 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. Ah yes... it's the Street Fighter but more like Five Deadly Venoms and Blood of the Dragon... cheesey 1970's Kung Fu movies like these. I was glued to the TV in the 80's watching films like these. I'm still trying to work out getting these from this ebayer. My patience is running thin. I may have to use my praying mantis style on him! - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:35:03 -0800 From: Eb Subject: reap Jim Capaldi (Traffic drummer) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:18:18 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: reap Someone will have beaten me ith this one, no doubt: We were just talking about him the other day - Jim Capaldi, 60. Anyone know if he was related to the actor Peter Capaldi? I know that Capaldi is (believe it or not) a fairly common Scottish name... 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #22 *******************************