From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #29 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 3 2005 Volume 14 : Number 029 Today's Subjects: ----------------- brighton komedia review [bisontentacle ] Re: Walking all over R.E.M. [Sebastian Hagedorn ] RE: [Fwd: FW: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN] ["Brian Nupp" ] Re: Around the Suck ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Around the Suck ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: walking on sunshine ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ouch [Jill Brand ] Re: Around the Suck ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Walking all over R.E.M. [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: [Fwd: FW: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN] [Capuchin ] RE: Sounds kinda Reznorish when I say it out loud... ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN [Eb ] Re: Around the Suck (was: Walking all over R.E.M.) [Aaron Mandel ] Re: Sounds kinda Reznorish when I say it out loud... [Rex Broome ] Re: Sounds kinda Reznorish when I say it out loud... [Jeff ] TMBG ["Brian Nupp" ] Re: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN [Rex Broome ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #27 [James Dignan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:32:40 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: brighton komedia review >To: VegetableFriends@yahoogroups.com >From: "Grimble Gromble" >Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:43:31 -0000 >Subject: [VegFriends] another review > > >From http://www.brightonlife.com/venues/index.php?venue_id=135 > >Damo Kawasaki >Robyn Hitchcock @ Komedia 6/12/04 : As is to be expected at a >Hitchcock night, a fine evening was had by all with plenty of >surprises from the band. Robyn's between-song banter, already the >stuff of legend, was particularly hilarious and tangental. Audience >expectations for being kept amused between songs is usually pretty >high at a Robyn Hitchcock gig and I sometimes sense that the man could >say almost anything and a few diehards would laugh irrespective of >what, but tonight we were laughing from our bellies at the surreal >logic of Robyn's stream of consciousness. This is relevant because it >ties in with the same skewed reality which inhabits the songs, giving >them that edge which borders on tragicomedy in a parallel universe. >So the set began with the man and his guitar playing a few new songs >from the Spooked album (recently recorded in Nashville with Gillian >Welch and David Rawlings), accompanied by Morris Windsor on backing >vocals and shakers. The song "Television" was memorable as a kind of >love-song from a lonely person to their TV, played without irony which >is where the tragicomedy comes in, I guess. Moving and ever so >slightly absurd. >Soon, up step the band, Morris taking his place behind the kit, the >initimable genius of Kimberley Rew on electric guitar, the be-trilbied >Paul Noble on bass and ex-Higson, (infact name any band) Terry Edwards >on baritone and alto sax, trumpet and even organ. >So there we are waiting for a crowning moment when the band kick in >when surprise no.1 happens "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" by Rose >Royce. I swear there was a huge question mark hanging over the seated >audience as the band played their faithful rendition of the song. Then >Robyn announced that meanwhile, in 1978 whilst that was number one in >the charts, The Soft Boys were doing...this next one - and so we were >treated to various Soft Boys tunes, with some of the harder ones off >Can Of Bees which I've never heard live before. Sure, a few more >covers of dodgy disco tunes were included - even Lipps Inc "Funky >Town!" Quite ridiculous. >Tonight was a massive treat for any Hitchcock fan or non-fan, to bathe >in the glow of such a collected talent in so informal and relatively >intimate a setting. >Reviewed 11 Dec 2004 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:07:55 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Walking all over R.E.M. Hi Jeff, - -- Jeff is rumored to have mumbled on 2. Februar 2005 19:04:37 Uhr -0600 regarding Re: Walking all over R.E.M.: > On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:47:50 +0100, Sebastian Hagedorn > wrote: > >> Has anyone of you nay-sayers listened to ATS at least, say, three times > > Yes. And I will admit that it's gotten better...but since my initial > impression was, hey, did I put a CD on or did someone transport my > ears to the nearest Starbucks, well... as I said, I agree it's not their greatest work. > There seem to be two, three, > maybe four fairly decent songs on there - but as with _Reveal_, the > sequencing is terrible. In this case, the lamest songs seem to come > first. At least this time, they're not all in the exact same key and > tempo (too slow). Strange, I never did get that about Reveal and I don't with ATS, either. Actually I really like the first three songs, with "Electron Blue" perhaps being my favorite altogether. I just hate "Make It All OK" with a vengeance! That guitar sound is gut-wrenching. > But ATS feels like a band that isn't sure whether to go forward, > backwards, or sideways, and so it pretty much stands still. Well, Michael Stipe talks about ATS on that iTunes Originals thing and mentions Paul Klee's theory about how you have to go full circle in your art: first you have to learn everything (at which point you have learned the craft) and then you have to unlearn it to become a real artist. Talking only about himself, not the band, Stipe claims to have reached that point with ATS. Pretentious? Perhaps, but it doesn't sound like standing (or sitting) still. > I have a live boot from the tour after _Up_, and at one point Stipe > introduces "Perfect Circle" as a Bill Berry song. That song's one of > my favorites, and the fact that it's evidently Berry's makes me wonder > just how much he brought to the band (more than just drumming, > certainly). Apparently not much in the way of songwriting. That's also something mentioned on the iTunes thingy. The only other song I know that he definitely wrote is "Country Feedback" - certainly one of my favorites, but the beauty is in the arrangement. What he came up with was probably just the chord progression. Cheers, Sebastian - -- Sebastian Hagedorn EhrenfeldgC Subject: Re: walking on sunshine Wanking on Sunshine? Whooa-ooah... Matt >From: Rex Broome Threads about wanking need >not apply. > >-Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:02:46 -0500 From: "Brian Nupp" Subject: RE: [Fwd: FW: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN] >Sad, in a way. Possibly sadder that it bothers me. > >-f. >Star Trek: Enterprise Canceled Dammit! It was that horrible theme song wasn't it? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:48:05 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: [Fwd: FW: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN] I prattered: >>Star Trek: Enterprise Canceled and in a timely manner Brian Nupp scribbled: > Dammit! It was that horrible theme song wasn't it? No doubt. Whenever I watch the show--which is rarely, for whatever reason as I think it's one of the better efforts for the franchise--my fiancie *always* comments on how wretched the theme is. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:22:29 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: walking on sunshine Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > What Paul solo albums do you (and other list members) > have? Ram, McCartney, Flaming Pie, McCartney II. And Wingspan. I used to have Band on the Run, but found it kinda redundant after Wingspan. ===== "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!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:06:14 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Around the Suck I listened to it preceisely 3/4 of the way through. Then I stopped it, and deleted it from my MP3 player as soon as I could. It was beyond ass. It was ... adult contemporary. Why anyone would listen to this tiredness when there's wonderful poppy spacey garagey psych-thrash like Jennifer Gentle's "I do dream you" out there, I'll never know. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:11:01 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Around the Suck Aaron Lowe wrote: > > What qualities are you referring to? C'mon, Aaron -- you must've heard all the old anti-TMBG arguments: twee, infantile, annoying, nasal. Although you certainly couldn't level the 'accordion' one at The Spine ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:13:36 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: walking on sunshine Capuchin wrote: > > Yellow Submarine isn't escapist because there's no hint at what is being > escaped. I'd opine (yes, I would; I'm qualified, I take public transit) that 'escapist' and 'whimsy' are near-synonyms. They're all about the flight of fancy thing on the part of the writer. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:31:21 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: ouch Marc wrote: "World Shut Your Mouth" one came out when I was a junior in high school, and I can remember it very clearly being everywhere for a short time and getting pretty heavy MTV play as well. If I recall, I was pregnant with my first child when it came out (or around that time). My bones are creaking. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:32:35 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Around the Suck I wrote: > ... spacey garagey psych-thrash like Jennifer Gentle's "I do dream you" and here it is: You'll love it. Or not. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:28:13 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Walking all over R.E.M. Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > Has anyone of you nay-sayers listened to [Around the > Sun] at least, say, three times? Yes. It's not as mushy and overproduced as Reveal. It works better as part of bunch of discs on shuffle-disc than as an individual listening experience. When push comes to shove, I think that it's not so much that there's anything wrong with ATS so much as there isn't anything very right about it. ===== "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!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:38:01 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: [Fwd: FW: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN] On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, FSThomas wrote: > I prattered: >>> Star Trek: Enterprise Canceled > and in a timely manner Brian Nupp scribbled: >> Dammit! It was that horrible theme song wasn't it? > > No doubt. Whenever I watch the show--which is rarely, for whatever > reason as I think it's one of the better efforts for the franchise--my > fiancie *always* comments on how wretched the theme is. I can't understand how that actually got approved by anyone with ears or the tiniest amount of taste. I mean, the whole credit sequence is just overblown and inconcongruous with the feel of the program itself. It's thematic relationship is clear, of course, but stylistically and... I don't know... semantically? they're just DIFFERENT. See, that's another advantage of downloading your television programs. When I watched some episodes of Enterprise, I just hit the up arrow key as soon as the teaser ended and the whole credit sequence was over. Interestingly, this appears to work with most every program, regardless of total running time. In my playback application (mplayer), the right (or forward) arrow key advances the video some small increment and the up arrow advances the video a larger increment while the "Page Up" key advances the video by a very large increment (sometimes right to the end, if the clip's quite short). I'm not sure how these intervals are determined, but the up arrow pretty much always jumps exactly as long as an openning theme and credit sequence... except in the case of The Sopranos, which has an annoyingly long and unvarying openning. Anyway, I should have slept. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:41:36 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: ouch > "World Shut Your Mouth" one came out when I was a junior in > high school Yikes, I was in year 2 of college... I mentioned this a few days ago, but has anyone heard the worthy cover done by Death Cab for Cutie? Another lover of the Cope-ster, - -Steve (off to see finally see The Aviator this afternoon) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:35:05 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: Sounds kinda Reznorish when I say it out loud... You mean it's like sitting up in bed between Eb and Jeme? Or it's become a place where people can get off their chests how disappointed they are with REM? What's got your goat, Lobsterman? Actually I like it here... does that make me part of the problem? Cheers Matt >From: John Barrington Jones > >I hate what this list has become. > >=jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:55:41 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Around the Suck (was: Walking all over R.E.M.) On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Capuchin wrote: > I guess loudfans must have an enormous number of They Might Be Giants > devotees... Well, in the five years I've been running the loud-fans poll, exactly three people have voted for any TMBG; two for Mink Car in 2001 and two (one of the same people, one new one) for The Spine. Nobody voted for "No!". Not an enormous number. > because I really like TMBG and I can barely listen to this record. > It's one of those records that justifies every criticism the band ever > received and I called unjustified... I've heard other people say that too, but, well, it's obviously not a universal opinion. I was irked by a few songs on The Spine-- "The World Before Later On" and "It's Kickin' In", mostly, with "Au Contraire" being sort of cloying but a decent melody. And "Experimental Film" sounds like a rewrite of "Dr. Worm". But tracks 3-7 ("Human Resources", "Wearing A Raincoat", "Prevenge", "Crazy Bastard") are a great sequence, and toward the end the album picks up again too. Mostly, I'm happy to see both of them writing well at the same time; I thought Linnell's solo album was great and both of Mono Puff's pretty weak, while on Mink Car all the inspired songs were by Flans. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:28:42 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: RE: Sounds kinda Reznorish when I say it out loud... On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Matt Sewell wrote: > Actually I like it here... does that make me part of the problem? Enabler. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:34:48 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Around the Suck (was: Walking all over R.E.M.) On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Aaron Mandel wrote: > Well, in the five years I've been running the loud-fans poll, exactly > three people have voted for any TMBG; two for Mink Car in 2001 and two > (one of the same people, one new one) for The Spine. Nobody voted for > "No!". Not an enormous number. OK. >> because I really like TMBG and I can barely listen to this record. It's >> one of those records that justifies every criticism the band ever >> received and I called unjustified... > > I've heard other people say that too, but, well, it's obviously not a > universal opinion. I wouldn't expect it to be, but I'm also glad to hear I'm not alone. > I was irked by a few songs on The Spine-- I'll give a more detailed account later, but the biggest thing to me was that every song on the Indestructible Object EP (except Ant, which was on the Istanbul single anyway and Caroline, No, which is a cover and a bland, uninspired one at that) was on the album and those were pretty much the best songs. What happened to the days when They would put out an EP and the subsequent album would have one or none of the same songs except a few cute or cutting references to the characters introduced on the EP? I'll give it another spin or two in the next couple of days and respond to The Viper's query. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:12:03 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Walking all over TMBG > Caroline, No Oh god. TMBG covered THAT? What ghastly news. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:16:29 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN Capuchin wrote: > I can't understand how that actually got approved by anyone with ears > or the tiniest amount of taste. I mean, the whole credit sequence is > just overblown and inconcongruous with the feel of the program itself. > It's thematic relationship is clear, of course, but stylistically > and... I don't know... semantically? they're just DIFFERENT. > > See, that's another advantage of downloading your television programs. > When I watched some episodes of Enterprise, I just hit the up arrow > key as soon as the teaser ended and the whole credit sequence was > over. > Yeah, I can see now why you protested when I called you a Star Trek devotee. I saw the news about Enterprise early yesterday, thought about posting a mock "Reap," then figured "Ehh, who would really care?" Live and learn. I don't even know when the show is on, myself. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:19:37 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Around the Suck (was: Walking all over R.E.M.) On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Capuchin wrote: > I'll give a more detailed account later, but the biggest thing to me was > that every song on the Indestructible Object EP (except Ant, which was on > the Istanbul single anyway and Caroline, No, which is a cover and a bland, > uninspired one at that) was on the album and those were pretty much the > best songs. Actually, "Am I Awake?" on the EP and not on the album. And they did release an EP that had no overlap with the album later on in 2004 (The Spine Surfs Alone). a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:19:31 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Sounds kinda Reznorish when I say it out loud... > You mean it's like sitting up in bed between Eb and Jeme? Personally, I think it's more like sitting up in bed between Rex and Jeffrey, but that's just me.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:35:28 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Speaking of reaps.... I figured one of the list's animation zealots would post this, but no one did. Score another one for cigarette-smoking, I presume.... Eb LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Dan Lee, an animator on some of Pixar Animations' biggest films, has died at the age of 35. The son of Chinese immigrants passed away after a 17-month battle with lung cancer at the Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley, Calif. on Jan. 15, reports the AP. "Dan was a longtime member of our Pixar family," says "Finding Nemo" director Andrew Stanton. "He single-handedly designed Nemo and has been a major influence at Pixar. Dan was a wonderful, irreplaceable, talented human being, and we miss him terribly." Lee worked in television first, creating cartoons and commercials for Toronto's Kennedy Cartoons and San Francisco's Colossal Pictures. In 1996, he joined the Pixar family and worked as a sketch artist, character designer and animator on "A Bug's Life," "Toy Story 2," "Monsters, Inc." and "Finding Nemo." [article edited down to essentials by me] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:41:02 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Sounds kinda Reznorish when I say it out loud... > > You mean it's like sitting up in bed between Eb and Jeme? > > Personally, I think it's more like sitting up in bed between Rex and > Jeffrey, but that's just me.... > > Eb Hmmm... based on what, frequency and length of posts? Jes' curious. And stop stealing the damn covers. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:48:56 GMT From: Jim Davies Subject: three kings :^( I couldn't go, but now I can, but I can't. I couldn't go to the Three Kings, because Ellie was out of the country, and I was looking after our two-year old for the night. Now she's not going, and I can go. Except that I can't, because the tickets have sold out. Heck! :^) Anyone with a spare ticket? x Jim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:46:58 -0600 From: Jeff Subject: Re: Sounds kinda Reznorish when I say it out loud... On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:19:31 -0800, Eb wrote: > > You mean it's like sitting up in bed between Eb and Jeme? > > Personally, I think it's more like sitting up in bed between Rex and > Jeffrey, but that's just me.... I have not had relations with that man. > Hmmm... based on what, frequency and length of posts? Quick! Somebody call the Double-Entendre Dept.! - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:46:57 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN > Capuchin wrote: > > I can't understand how that actually got approved by anyone > with ears > > or the tiniest amount of taste. I mean, the whole credit > sequence is > > just overblown and inconcongruous with the feel of the > program itself. > > It's thematic relationship is clear, of course, but stylistically > > and... I don't know... semantically? they're just DIFFERENT. > > > > See, that's another advantage of downloading your > television programs. > > When I watched some episodes of Enterprise, I just hit the up arrow > > key as soon as the teaser ended and the whole credit > sequence was > over. Eb, > Yeah, I can see now why you protested when I called you a Star Trek > devotee. > > I saw the news about Enterprise early yesterday, thought > about posting > a mock "Reap," then figured "Ehh, who would really care?" Live and > learn. > > I don't even know when the show is on, myself. I watched about half of season 1, then a couple from season 2 and then lost interest. I am hoping for a Deep Space 9 movie, but I doubt that will ever happen. DS9, starting with season 4 when Worf arrived, was my favorite Star Trek series. Michael B. PS All this TMBG talk has reminded me once again that I should pick up Lincoln. I have the two that followed Lincoln though. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:55:30 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Sounds kinda Reznorish when I say it out loud... > > Hmmm... based on what, frequency and length of posts? > > Quick! Somebody call the Double-Entendre Dept.! Oh, Christ. I simply cannot believe I wrote that. I'm gonna go get some Mongolian Barbecue. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:01:01 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN Michael B: > PS All this TMBG talk has reminded me once again that I should pick up Lincoln. > I have the two that followed Lincoln though. Hmmm, interesting. Lincoln was the peak for me. The next two were pretty good, but they just wore a bit thinner for me with each release, and I was pretty much gone by the dawn of the "recorded with a full band" era (I have one of two of those records as low-end-of-the-used-bin pickups but haven't spent much time with them). I guess I liked neither the idea that having a "full band" was intrinsically good or necesary, nor the edge it seemed to take off of their "what the hell" approach to sound. Probably just me. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:05:48 -0600 From: Bret Subject: Re: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN > > I have the two that followed Lincoln though. > > Hmmm, interesting. Lincoln was the peak for me. In a perfect world TMBG would have made the pick album, followed by Lincoln, then would have gone onto making songs for kids shows and never bothered releasing a record again. of course, what do I know? - -b np: some generic conference call. yay!. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:41:27 -0500 From: "Brian Nupp" Subject: TMBG >Hmmm, interesting. Lincoln was the peak for me. The next two were >pretty good, but they just wore a bit thinner for me with each >release, and I was pretty much gone by the dawn of the "recorded with >a full band" era (I have one of two of those records as >low-end-of-the-used-bin pickups but haven't spent much time with >them). I guess I liked neither the idea that having a "full band" >was >intrinsically good or necesary, nor the edge it seemed to take off of >their "what the hell" approach to sound. Probably just me. > >-Rex Word. Now I wanna go listen to Lincoln. Santa's Beard. - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:54:41 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED - UPN Me: > > Hmmm, interesting. Lincoln was the peak for me [...] Probably just me. Bret: > In a perfect world TMBG would have made the pick album, followed by > Lincoln, then would have gone onto making songs for kids shows and > never bothered releasing a record again. Nuppy: > Word. Okay... so it's NOT just me. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:12:55 -0800 From: Eb Subject: At least he wasn't fat, drunk and stupid (reap) Actor John "Dean Wormer" Vernon Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:23:18 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #27 > > No, I honestly can't listen to his entire catalog. After two or three > > songs, I have to find the aural equivalent of a toothbrush. > >What Paul solo albums do you (and other list members) have? not popular choices for the most part, but a best of, Band on the Run, London Town, and Back to the Egg (still on scratchy vinyl). I still think London Town would be the perfect introduction to Paul's music for little kids. 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: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:45:03 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #27 > >> This is no more true now than it was when you asserted it a year ago. > > > > We may have the birth of a new word folks. Either that or a freudian > > slip. > >I'm missing something here. hell's bells and buggy wheels, so am I - siomehow I read asserted as "ass erted" World Shut Your Mouth wasn't a big hit in the US? It was *everywhere* here for a while. > > Yellow Submarine isn't escapist because there's no hint at > > what is being escaped. > >It's only later, in Octopus's Garden, that we learn they've escaped to a >little hideaway beneath the waves in order to be warm, below the storm. > > > You have to have the darkness in order to have something from > > which to escape. Although it's an ad hoc afterthought in many ways, the movie makes it clear. The (brilliant) scenes pastiching Liverpool make it clear what's being escaped in the song, and I think that's what was being implied in the song as a whole - what was being escaped was "the town where I was born". > > I have nearly all of them, I don't have McCartney II because I think it > > sucks. > >"Temporary... >Secretary..." Paul's recent remix of that song ("...and I'm complimenting you by considering it a song!") improves it no end, although it's still not particularly good. James (who is glad that he's not the only one who likes "London Town") - -- 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 #29 *******************************