From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #49 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 26 2005 Volume 14 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: FW: FW: [Tallulah] Pitchfork News Item on the GB's [Jeff Dwarf ] Ryan ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: The Beekeeper [Jeff ] Re: The Beekeeper ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Ryan [Steve Talkowski ] Re: FW: FW: [Tallulah] Pitchfork News Item on the GB's [James Dignan [Elizabeth Brion ] Re: [Jeff ] This is where we separate the men from the faggots ["A Wonderful Human Pe] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:06:19 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: FW: FW: [Tallulah] Pitchfork News Item on the GB's Rex Broome wrote: > Also, [Grant and Robert] were not trying to have me > killed or abducted from the stage, as they were in 1999, > but that's another story. One that I think we're going to have to insist you share! ===== "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, 25 Feb 2005 10:24:00 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Speaking of the guy I said should have died after 14 Songs.... On Feb 24, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Eb wrote: > Lawndart wanted to stand way upfront. He ended up having hostile > interactions with a few drunk guys around him who were talking too > loudly, yelling out constant requests and being a pain. I had to > inform him later that one of the men he was kvetching at was David > Koechner, a former "Saturday Night Live" cast member circa the > mid-'90s. I thought he had basically disappeared from showbiz, but the > web tells me he was in "Anchorman," which ain't too shabby. I never thought Koechner was all that funny, and it always bugged me how he talks out of the side of his mouth. He was good in Anchorman though, playing the cowboy sportscaster. On Feb 25, 2005, at 6:40 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote, RE Paul Westerberg: >> The compilation will >> include his hits Ummmmm, and they are... - -tc, baffled ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:55:35 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Speaking of the guy I said should have died after 14 Songs.... > On Feb 24, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Eb wrote: > > > Lawndart wanted to stand way upfront. He ended up having hostile > > interactions with a few drunk guys around him who were talking too > > loudly, yelling out constant requests and being a pain. I had to > > inform him later that one of the men he was kvetching at was David > > Koechner, a former "Saturday Night Live" cast member circa the > > mid-'90s. I thought he had basically disappeared from > showbiz, but the > > web tells me he was in "Anchorman," which ain't too shabby. TC came back with: > I never thought Koechner was all that funny, and it always bugged me > how he talks out of the side of his mouth. He was good in Anchorman > though, playing the cowboy sportscaster. > > On Feb 25, 2005, at 6:40 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote, RE Paul Westerberg: > >> The compilation will > >> include his hits > TC came back with: > Ummmmm, and they are... The songs from the movie Singles, would they ever be considered hits? Dyslexic Heart might have got some airplay, but Waiting for Somebody? Stumped on any others, but both of those benefited from being in Singles no doubt. Michael B. NP Ramones - Ramones ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:00:11 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: The Beekeeper I listened all the way through Tori Amos' new CD, "The Beekeeper." I liked it very much...! It has a similar feel to "Scarlet's Walk," but comes across as less homogenized. While nowhere near the wild ride of "Boys for Pele," the songs on "Beekeeper" kind of drift around her catalog and bump into other albums, then drift back slightly reshaped. The piano-heavy "Barons of Suburbia" is vintage early Tori, "The Beekeeper" itself goes back to "Choirgirl Hotel," and (unfortunately) a few tracks like "General Joy" have the lackluster quality of some "Venus and Back" throwaways. A few of the better tracks even seem touched by gospel. Oh! And the deluxe CD comes with a packet of seeds! A packet of fucking SEEDS! - --The Great "Tori's Bitch" Quail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:28:13 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Ryan the NFB's streaming their animated short Oscar nominee: ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:36:55 -0600 From: Jeff Subject: Re: The Beekeeper On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:00:11 -0500, The Great Quail wrote: > I listened all the way through Tori Amos' new CD, "The Beekeeper." I think it'd be better if it really were a collaboration with Bruce Gilbert (who DJ'd under the name "The Beekeeper" in the '90s...it's a pun, see...) > --The Great "Tori's Bitch" Quail I'm not wildly thrilled by her music. However... - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:43:25 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: The Beekeeper At 03:00 PM 2/25/2005 -0500, The Great Quail wrote: >Oh! And the deluxe CD comes with a packet of seeds! A packet of fucking >SEEDS! The kinda seeds I can grow something, you know, useful with? - --Jason "J-Lo waved at me at the Grammys" Thornton "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:56:23 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Ryan On Feb 25, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > the NFB's streaming their animated short Oscar nominee: > And you can catch two others, Bill Plympton's "Guard Dog" and Blur Studios' "Gopher Broke" here: http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/02/25/shorts The other two not represented are "Birthday Boy", an Australian Film, TV and Radio School production, and "Lorenzo" by Disney animators Mike Gabriel and Baker Bloodworth. I think Blur Studio might take it this year... - -Steve (animator on the 1998 Oscar Winning Short, "Bunny") - -- http://homepage.mac.com/stevetalkowski ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:36:43 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: FW: FW: [Tallulah] Pitchfork News Item on the GB's >Michael B. > > Robert Vickers and Lindy Morrison (ex-GB drummer), both post messages >> and answer questions on the Go-Betweens web site Mail Board. Lindy in >> particular responds quiet often. > >What's Lindy up to these days? It's a shame she hasn't been involved >in the reunion projects, although Janet Weisz is brilliant (wildly >different player than Lindy was, though). I know it's not her fault, but I can't hear her name without thinking of Rocky Horror. >Also, they were not trying to have me killed or abducted from the >stage, as they were in 1999, but that's another story. > >- -Rex sounds like a story which should be reported in full... 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, 25 Feb 2005 16:42:21 -0800 From: Elizabeth Brion Subject: Re: On Thursday, February 24, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Eb wrote: > Another song was sung (poorly) by guest Terry Reid, whom I admittedly > don't know much about. Westerberg touted him as the "greatest white > British blues singer alive," or words to that effect. If you happened to catch Terry Reid on a night when he's sober, you would definitely understand why he's often referred to that way. Unfortunately, that almost never happens anymore. Sounds like he was an appropriate guest for the evening, based on the rest of your review. Elizabeth, very glad she saw him play a lot in the '90s when he only showed up drunk like 25% of the time ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:57:41 -0600 From: Jeff Subject: Re: On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:42:21 -0800, Elizabeth Brion wrote: > On Thursday, February 24, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Eb wrote: > > > Another song was sung (poorly) by guest Terry Reid, whom I admittedly > > don't know much about. Westerberg touted him as the "greatest white > > British blues singer alive," or words to that effect. > > If you happened to catch Terry Reid on a night when he's sober, you > would definitely understand why he's often referred to that way. > Unfortunately, that almost never happens anymore. Sounds like he was an > appropriate guest for the evening, based on the rest of your review. What irks me about that description is the notion that greatness in blues singers is first categorized by race and ethnicity. Not to mention the presumption that the qualification is necessary, because "everyone knows" black Americans are the best blues singers, as if they inherited the blues along with their higher melatonin count. Is it even important that he's white and British? You see this kind of implicit presumption about race quite a bit in classical music reviewing: blah-blah-blah Pyotr Shkuknovskovich's Russian heritage attunes him to the melancholy underlying Tchaikovsky's 7th Symphony blah-blah-blah. Puh-lease: how is that, really, any different from saying "Lashawn Jackson's African heritage attunes him to the joys of watermelon" or "Benjamin Steinberg's Jewish heritage attunes him to the joy of money"? Not much, sez I. Hrmph. Had Mr. Shkuknovskovich grown up hanging around the Mississippi delta in the 1930s where he was an inveterate jukejoint listener and guitar player, he'd surely know the blues a hell of a lot better than Mr. Jackson would, if Jackson grew up in Beverly Hills in a family that played only Beethoven at home. Or something like that. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:14:33 -0800 From: "A Wonderful Human Person" Subject: This is where we separate the men from the faggots oh. my. god. how come none of you scummy UK fucks (this includes you, stewart) have informed me of the existence (let alone the absolute bitchenness) of the movie *Intermission*??? just saw it this week, and it's perhaps the closest thing i've seen to a perfect movie since *My Life As A Dog*: i can think of maybe two lines of dialog, and one or two shots, that i would change. and it's great on *all* levels: screenplay, acting, cinematography, editing, soundtrack. there are sooooo many movies that suck sooooo badly. but a movie like this makes all the crap worthwhile. question, though: is "Chef Sauce" a real brand name (peculiar to the british isles, i'm guessing)? if so, what does it taste like? BBQ sauce, or something? KEN "I'd better go empty me colostomy bag" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #49 *******************************