From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #59 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, March 9 2005 Volume 14 : Number 059 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock-LiveTV - Spain - Show Flac [jeff albertson ] Youngest Feg? [Rex Broome ] Re: Youngest Feg? [Tom Clark ] Re: Youngest Feg? [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Youngest Feg? [Rex Broome ] Re: Youngest Feg? [Rex Broome ] What I learned from the mp3 networks tonight [Eb ] Re: this looks like a job for... [steve ] Largo 3/8 ["marc.h@cox.net" ] swap CD review [Jeff ] Russell Crowe Officially Insane [Tom Clark ] RE: Russell Crowe Officially Insane ["Brian Nupp" Subject: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock-LiveTV - Spain - Show Flac http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=31510&hit=1 - ----- Forwarded message from EZT ----- A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT. Torrent: 31510 Title: Robyn Hitchcock-LiveTV - Spain - Show Flac Size: 163.83 MB Category: Singer/Songwriter Uploaded by: DaltCorda Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock-LiveTVSpainShow.Flac Source:Program "Conciertos de Radio3" Tv2 and radio3 show 09-Feb-2005. Vegas Video/render wav<>Flac Nero plugin/convert Flac> 01-Chinese Bones 02-Queen Elvis 03-Television 04-If You Know Time 05-I Feel Beautiful 06-Creeped Out Enjoy!! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 11:18:01 -0800 From: Eb Subject: reap Actress Teresa ("The Pride of the Yankees," "Shadow of a Doubt") Wright, 86. IMDB says she acted as late as 1997? Who knew? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:11:09 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Youngest Feg? I'm sure we've done this before, but who's the youngest person on the feg list? I'll start the bidding at my age, 33... anyone younger (I'm sure there are a few) respond with your age and we'll see how low we can go. I have my reasons for wanting to know. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:18:47 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Youngest Feg? On Mar 8, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Rex Broome wrote: > I'm sure we've done this before, but who's the youngest person on the > feg list? I'll start the bidding at my age, 33... anyone younger (I'm > sure there are a few) respond with your age and we'll see how low we > can go. I have my reasons for wanting to know. > Rex, just so you know, the age of consent in California is 18. you've all been warned, - -tc, 41 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:23:20 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Youngest Feg? 30 in May On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Rex Broome wrote: > I'm sure we've done this before, but who's the youngest person on the > feg list? I'll start the bidding at my age, 33... anyone younger (I'm > sure there are a few) respond with your age and we'll see how low we > can go. I have my reasons for wanting to know. > > -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:25:49 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Youngest Feg? On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:18:47 -0800, Tom Clark wrote: > Rex, just so you know, the age of consent in California is 18. Fuck you, Tom Clark! She's 26. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:31:58 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Youngest Feg? ...or is my real plan to flush the elusive Greta Swann out of hiding? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:03:50 -0800 From: Eb Subject: What I learned from the mp3 networks tonight Five really cool songs by the Kinks: 1. My Sharona 2. What I Like About You 3. Wild Thing 4. Turning Japanese 5. Girl You've Really Got Me Going Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:43:11 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: this looks like a job for... >> Okay - has there ever been a good movie that has the director's name >> as part of the title? On Mar 6, 2005, at 10:02 PM, 2and2makes5@comcast.net wrote: >> "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" Which was directed by Henry Selick. Mr. Burton is the codirector of The Corpse Bride. - - Steve __________ Yes, we have no destiny. Only those swallowed up by ignorance and fear Who take false steps, Shall plunge us into the muddy waters called destiny. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:59:46 -0500 From: "marc.h@cox.net" Subject: Largo 3/8 Just a set list here--I started to do a full account and near the end of the review, the laptop lost power. first set: Trash Driving Aloud (Radio Storm) The Idea of You Creeped Out American Girl Madonna of the Wasps My Favorite Buildings My Mind is Connected to Your Dreams (piano) Flagan's Song Somewhere Apart (w/John Brion on piano) Once Upon A Star (?--old cover?) Raymond Chandler Evening The Leopard Queen Elvis 2nd set: Jesus & Me (Robyn on piano) Sometimes A Blonde Be Here Now--George Harrison You Remind Me of You Sooner or Later--Dylan (Robyn on piano, John on bass) New Age--the Velvet Underground (Robyn back on guitar) (add Winston Wilson on drums) She Belongs to Me--Dylan Soul Love--Bowie Attention Rocketship (new?) Let Me Follow You Down--Dylan (Robyn on Telecaster) Good to see Rex, Catherine & Mike, Julie, and Kim & Greg at the show tonight. It was a blast. Feel free to ask questions, but I'm crashing now. Later, Marc - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:22:39 -0600 From: Jeff Subject: swap CD review Michael Wells sent me a nice collection called _North Shore Line: From Chicago to Milwaukee_, whose theme, clearly enough, is acts with connections to Chicago or Milwaukee (our respective hometowns). Michael seems most interested here in folky, narrative songs - not what I'm usually interested in, but it's often better in swaps to be able to hear something other than what you already know. And the man has good taste in those kind of songs. Anyway: Steve from the band Frisbie "Some Exceptions" (live) - This song's built around a circular riff that I could easily hear being adapted for a full-band arrangement...I don't know the band, so maybe it has been. Anyway, a fine track. Peter Mulvey "Shirt" - Uptempo, with light band accompaniment, but still based on acoustic picking -but I'm not sure why he didn't call this "Corduroy Shirt" to make the title a bit more distinctive. Liz Phair "Red Light Fever" - Unexpected choice - although when you think about it, Phair really is a folk singer, often prone to narrative songs...it's just she uses electric guitars often and says "fuck" a lot. This is a catchy track only slightly marred by a touch too much slickness in the production, particularly evident in the chorus harmonies. Smashing Pumpkins "Crush" - I was prepared to cringe. The thing is that Billy Corgan doesn't know how to sing. That's entirely different from "can't sing"; his problem is that he too often pushes his voice into unpleasant territory. When he lays back and fits in with a slow-burning, moody, and slightly psychedelic feel like this song, the band is actually pretty good - something I'd forgotten from their annoying, excessive, but more popular tracks. Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun" - Everyone knows this song. The Juleps "Wild Beautiful Thing" - Kinda reminds me of the countrier moments of early Wilco, but with a bit less crunch in the rhythm guitar (here acoustic instead of the sorta Keith-ish feel of those Wilco records). Willy Porter "Cheap Wine" (live) - I like some of what Porter tries to do, but his two weaknesses are a tendency to oversing and to overplay - - he sometimes approaches that sort of annoying, busy, snappy-poppin' Ani DiFranco guitar style; and sometimes he tries to do this sort of "soulful" singing that feels overdone in context. He reins in these tendencies here, and shows that when he does so, and sings with feeling but without overdone emphaticness, he can deliver an effective song. The Freddy Jones Band "In a Daydream" (live) - Doesn't do much for me. They're solid - clearly they can play, and the second (of two) lengthy guitar solos is actually pretty effective at raising some sparks, but the song itself seems pretty slight in a (I hate to say it) kinda Dave Matthews-y way. John Belushi plays Jeopardy (Steve Dahl Show 1981) - Is exactly what it says it is. Buddy Guy "Mustang Sally" - It's yr Chicago style blues, delivered by a convincing vocalist and guitarist. I still am not fond of over-arranged blues (i.e., the lounge-blues horns and femme vocalists) but Guy's talents can't be denied. The Kinsey Report "Full Moon on Main Street" - Sorry - "updating" Chicago blues by applying brittle, almost-80s-style drum recording and a similar sort of era-appropriate guitar sound...well let's just say I'm skeptical generally about modern Chicago blues, as it tends to be lower-octane versions of just rock'n'roll - and if you're going to play just rock'n'roll, it helps to rock out. I may be a white guy in his forties, but this still bores me... Jeffrey Foucault "Tropic of Cancer" - I've heard a lot about this guy (lot of it from Michael), so I was curious to hear what he sounded like (I hadn't, because I am lame). I think his biggest strength is his weathered voice, which gives a depth to his singing. The other nice thing about this track is a subtle sort of moodiness in the production and arranging, which is somewhat rare in acoustic-guitar - -based music (Richard Buckner - see below - is also good at this). I may have to check this guy out further - but first I need to find out if he pronounces his name like the French theorist or like some guy from Chicago would say it ;) Dag Juhlin "Little Black Glasses" - You'd think missed-opportunity bittersweet songs about slightly nerdy-girl crushes would be old by now - but this one works just fine. Redbird "Lovely as the Day Is Long" - Male/female duet with acoustic guitar of this Paul Cebar song that, harmonically and melodically, evokes a sort of Broadway musical feel. But because it's just two acoustic guitars and singers, it's completely glitz-free - which makes it rather charming, if a bit slight. Steve Goodman "The Dutchman" - Goodman was, if I remember right, an underheralded exemplar of the sort of folky, sixties-seventies singer-songwriter type that people like Jackson Browne made big bank on by blanding out and applying a California gloss. Stripped of such, it's a lot more appealing - Goodman' slightly quavery voice helps here too. Richard Buckner "Ariel Ramirez" - In the larger genre-like space that Michael presents on this CD, a singer's voice is pretty important - since it becomes pretty much the main sonic focus and is what sells the lyrics (also important, but I'm too lame to spend time on them). Buckner's well-suited there - there's both a rough-hewn and a resonant quality to his voice, and that, along with the subtleties of the sound production here (some quiet piano, some odd, almost electronic atmosphere that crops up once or twice), makes him interesting - one of the folks I need to pay more attention to than I have. Wilco "Monday" - Almost everyone here has this song, right? Wilco in straightforward rock mode: they were really good at it, but I'm one who isn't disappointed that they've mostly moved on. I think Tweedy's lyrics need a slightly less accommodating and more distinctive framework. Still and all - if this kind of song is what you came to Wilco for, I can understand your being disappointed in _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_... Thanks again to Michael for a nice entree into parts of musical world...he spared me the Rush tribute bands this time ;) - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:45:15 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Russell Crowe Officially Insane SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Russell Crowe says Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network wanted to kidnap him as part of a "cultural destabilization plot," according to an Australian magazine. In an interview published in the March edition of Australia's GQ magazine, Crowe said FBI agents told him of the threat in 2001, in the months before he won a best actor Oscar for his role as Maximus in "Gladiator." "That was the first (time) I'd ever heard the phrase 'al-Qaida,'" Crowe said. "It was about - and here's another little touch of irony - taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as sort of a cultural destabilization plot," he added. Crowe was born in New Zealand and has a ranch in eastern Australia but made his name in Hollywood. It was not clear if there were other targets in the plot. Crowe said he was shadowed by FBI agents after the threat and hired private security guards. - -tc np: Jimmie Dale Gilmore "Mack The Knife" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:54:29 -0500 From: "Brian Nupp" Subject: RE: Russell Crowe Officially Insane I had also read that the FBI contacted Crowe about this instead of the other way around, so maybe he's not completely mad. - -Nuppy - ---- Original Message ---- From: tclark@mac.com To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: RE: Russell Crowe Officially Insane Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:45:15 -0800 > SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Russell Crowe says Osama bin Laden's >al-Qaida >terror network wanted to kidnap him as part of a "cultural >destabilization plot," according to an Australian magazine. > In an interview published in the March edition of Australia's GQ >magazine, Crowe said FBI agents told him of the threat in 2001, in >the >months before he won a best actor Oscar for his role as Maximus in >"Gladiator." > "That was the first (time) I'd ever heard the phrase 'al-Qaida,'" >Crowe said. "It was about - and here's another little touch of irony >- >taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as sort of a >cultural >destabilization plot," he added. >Crowe was born in New Zealand and has a ranch in eastern Australia >but >made his name in Hollywood. >It was not clear if there were other targets in the plot. >Crowe said he was shadowed by FBI agents after the threat and hired >private security guards. > >-tc > >np: Jimmie Dale Gilmore "Mack The Knife" ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #59 *******************************