From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #38 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 12 2005 Volume 14 : Number 038 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: a whole new world ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock October 1990 Demos and Rough Sketches ["] Re: a whole new world ["Stewart C. Russell" ] RE: Comic book Guy [Jeff Dwarf ] reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Playlist fun ["michael wells" ] Robyn in Chicago on sale ["michael wells" ] Re: Robyn in Chicago on sale [Jeff ] RE: Comic book Guy [2and2makes5@comcast.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:30:01 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: a whole new world jeff albertson wrote: > > ... provided there's a note about flacs being available and being > the preferred way to trade, etc. But the ratio of people who want to trade as compared to those who want to just listen. It's not as if they're tremendously high quality to start off with, and equally, I encoded them to a fairly exacting standard, adding in a whack of metadata not present in the FLACs. If people feel they have to have that extra bit of signal that you couldn't detect unless you had an $100K audio system in an anechoic chamber, they'll know where to get the FLACs. It's not as if I'm preventing anyone from getting the FLACs by posting these. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:32:14 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock October 1990 Demos and Rough Sketches Jon Lewis wrote: > > My goodness, but "Watch Your Intelligence" is good! It isn't half. It feels like an SBs track. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:16:14 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: a whole new world Ed The Head wrote: > > in that case, you should organise a CD-tree instead. It takes months -- and a couple of bucks a pop -- for a tree to go around. Don't get so hung up on the medium. > in fact, i believe that one of the > stipulations for being allowed to use FLAC is that the user will not > convert files to mp3. Nah, urban myth. There's nothing about that in the docs, and since it's open source, there's basically feck all anyone can do to control its usage. (cue Jeme in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... ) Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:54:24 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: Comic book Guy Marc Alberts wrote: > > > For me, it replaced "Saddlesore Galactica" in my top > > > three worst episodes of all time list. > > > > Which one was that? > > Homer and Bart buy a racehorse that they turn into the > Dennis Rodman of horse racing, only to have Homer > infuriate the jockeys who apparently live > underground and are really elves. Oy. That was a particularly bad patch, with Maude being killed the next week -- that they killed her was fine, but the way they did it always irked me -- just have her get into a car accident or something, without the stupid t-shirt at the nascar race shit. That whole season was pretty rancid -- Homer challenging people to duels, he and Mel Gibson butcher "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," the birth of the octuplets which has really ruined Apu as a character, Homer stiffs PBS, Moe becomes handsome, ..., I don't like that episode, but I dislike it a lot less than a lot of that season. Maybe that's why these last couple seasons don't bother me that much -- I remember it being much worse. > > > That said, it wasn't worse than "Homer v Dignity," > where > > > one of the key punchlines was that Homer was raped by > a > > > panda bear at the zoo, and a Thanksgiving parade > where > > > people were soaked by buckets of chum. It > > > was very, very close, though. Simply awful, and > > > painfully so. > > > > Homer being raped by the panda has to be _THE_ absolute > low > > point of the series. Though the couple bits about > Waylon > > Smithers producing his Malibu Stacy musical were funny. > > Should have been the actual focus of the episode, > actually. > > > > And at least this one ("Homer And Ned's Hail Mary > Pass") > > seemed to be trying. The problem was it had too many > > storylines, none of them well done, and they were just > > thrown together. If it hadn't been aimed as the Super > Bowl > > special, it probably would have been held back and > possibly > > fixed (maybe make it two different episodes -- Ned's > > religious films and the stuff about athletes searching > for > > better celebrations simply can't work together as one > > episode). > > Personally, I always have liked Ned episodes. He is so > much more identifiable as a real person than Homer is. > I mean, all of us probably know at least one person who > is very devout and really tries to be nice to > everyone and lives his or her life with the WWJD? Very true, which is part of why this was so dissapoint, because they wasted what could have been a pretty good Ned ep. > > And maybe focusing on cameos by people with more > distinct > > voices? Nothing against Lebron James, Michelle Kwan, > Yao > > Ming, or even the future Mr. Jill Brand, Tom Brady, but > you > > could hire voice actors to do that parts and no one but > > their families would know the difference. > > The cameos have been really poorly done in recent years > as well. Too many of them smell as if Jean (or Scully > before him) wanted to meet someone famous, so in order > to do that they promised them a lifeless episode. It's > like a giant brown nose session with a lot of them. There's also just a hell of a lot fewer really worthy cameos left. If they really want famous people, maybe they should have a return visit from, say, Jessica Lovejoy rather than getting some douche from Dawson's Creek so that Jean or Scully or whoever can impress him daughter. And only do it 4-5 times a season rather than every damn episode. ===== "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 Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:05:12 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: reap Louis Sutter, father of six NHL players ===== "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 - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:02:27 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: Re: Playlist fun Jeme: > It's all very abstract, when you think about it. Wow, that makes a lot more sense than my idea that a bunch of little monkeys with flashlights and pickaxes leapt into the burner and chipped away all the little bits of the CD that werent needed anymore. At least thats what it sounded like was happening in my old Gateway box. Tom: > Occasionally I'll set up the $12,000 VPI turntable and sit in the dark crying in my Martini during "When I Look In Your Eyes". I think you know what I mean. I think it means that its finally dawning on you all that dough went for listening to the warblings of a spoiled French girl who was better known for marrying Andy Williams and accidentally shooting professional skiers than she was for her singing career. Gauche, indeed. Se mifier de Claudine Longet quand dans Aspen, Bode Miller! Michael wondering if three Robyn shows in four days would be too much...naaaahhh Wells ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:05:16 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: Robyn in Chicago on sale Both gigs at Schuba's (3/31 and 4/1) are on sale now via your very special friends at Ticketbastard: http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/735282 Heads up: the tickets each night are $23 by themselves, PLUS $11.50 in service charges. Ye Gods. Still, Schubas will sell out (ask anybody who had to drive to Milwaukee last November) so get 'em while they get-able Michael "I guess that trip to Purdue is out now" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:17:25 -0600 From: Jeff Subject: Re: Robyn in Chicago on sale On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:05:16 -0800, michael wells wrote: > Both gigs at Schuba's (3/31 and 4/1) are on sale now via your very special > friends at Ticketbastard: http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/735282 > > Heads up: the tickets each night are $23 by themselves, PLUS $11.50 in > service charges. Ye Gods. Still, Schubas will sell out (ask anybody who had > to drive to Milwaukee last November) so get 'em while they get-able And you know, we greet Illinoisans at the state line by pelting them with rocks and garbage, so it's not as easy as just a 90-mile drive. But that's only in retaliation for Illinois' recently doubling the rates on its tollroads for anyone who lacks an "IPass" - which you can buy in Wisconsin, only they've changed the name by replacing the "I" with a "u," lowercasing the "P," and inserting a hyphen after the "p." I kid. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 04:26:30 +0000 From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net Subject: RE: Comic book Guy > Oy. That was a particularly bad patch, with Maude being > killed the next week -- that they killed her was fine, but > the way they did it always irked me -- just have her get > into a car accident or something, without the stupid > t-shirt at the nascar race shit. That whole season was > pretty rancid -- Homer challenging people to duels, he and > Mel Gibson butcher "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," the > birth of the octuplets which has really ruined Apu as a > character, Homer stiffs PBS, Moe becomes handsome, ..., I > don't like that episode, but I dislike it a lot less than a > lot of that season. Maybe that's why these last couple > seasons don't bother me that much -- I remember it being > much worse. > Actually I don't find these episodes to be total losses--each (excpt for the Gibson one) had memorable funny moments ("Save me Jebus!") Most of the latest stuff is pure dreck, however. I finally gave up hope several months ago when Ralph Wiggum was running in a circle shouting "Duck Duck" (but not "Goose") for almost a minute and a half before fading to the commercial. Homer wasn't the only character that has been changed radically. Marge is now unfunny and annoying. Maggie has become over-babified, i.e. making cute sounds, giggling, etc. instead of being the silent pacifier-sucking Simpson. On another front, animals on the show are becoming increasingly sentient, like the wolves and panthers in that family togetherness training episode. > > . > > > > The cameos have been really poorly done in recent years > > as well. Too many of them smell as if Jean (or Scully > > before him) wanted to meet someone famous, so in order > > to do that they promised them a lifeless episode. It's > > like a giant brown nose session with a lot of them. > My least favorite cameo is REM's. Not only was it lifeless, it also served to reinforce negative attitudes towards tofu. "Mmmm, delicious curd." Second place goes to the annoying judge from American Idol's cameo. Ah well, enough griping. Jon ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #38 *******************************