From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #86 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, April 2 2005 Volume 14 : Number 086 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Job opening [2and2makes5@comcast.net] Re: Reap [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: reap [FSThomas ] Re: Job opening [Miles Goosens ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #79 [Tom Clark ] Mitch Hedburg reap predicted [Barbara Soutar ] reap - *another* politician's credibility* (among divers alarums) [James ] Re: reap - *another* politician's credibility* (among divers alarums) [Je] Re: Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Job opening [Jeff Dwarf ] Son of Kong [Steve Talkowski ] Re: The Mars Volta [steve ] Re: Guardian scoop -- prog not dead! [steve ] Chicago setlist 4-1-05 (yowza!) ["michael wells" ] New Moon At The Turf, March 31st 2005 ["Marc Hewson" ] Re: Son of Kong [Eb ] Long may you run [Eb ] MGM DVD cover images: Storefront Hitchcock ["Stewart C. Russell" ] REAP [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: REAP [2and2makes5@comcast.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:37:30 +0000 From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net Subject: Re: Job opening - -------------- Original message -------------- > On Apr 1, 2005, at 10:29 AM, FSThomas wrote: > > > REAP: Pope John Paul > > > > Got this from someone: > * Strong desire to perpetuate fairy tales . Not that I'm a big supporter of the Pope, but at least during his reign the Vatican did come out and support evolutionary theory. Pope Jon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 00:41:11 +0300 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Reap On 01.04.2005, at 22:01, Lauren Elizabeth at gmail dot com wrote: > Lauren, wondering if I'm still too new to 'Reap' > Never a question of being too new to reap, just seems a question of being too slow. Like I never had a reap that I was able to post before it was posted, you know? No matter what frigin' time zone I'm in! My news on this side of the pond is still saying JIIPII isn't dead, yet... - - carrie "I'm not dead yet" the carriester ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:45:48 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: reap Eb wrote: >> Pope John Paul >> > I was just watching CNN, and JP2's demise does not seem to be a > confirmed fact. Yeah, I guess I jumped the gun on that one. I was in the kitchen here at work at lunch, the TV was on and they were reporting that Italian media and Reuters confirmed it. I'm guessing not, now. JP would make the trifecta, though. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:35:46 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Job opening On Apr 1, 2005 3:37 PM, 2and2makes5@comcast.net <2and2makes5@comcast.net> wrote: > Not that I'm a big supporter of the Pope, but at least during his reign the Vatican did come out and support evolutionary theory. And Pokemon! pikapikachuchu, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:00:59 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #79 On Apr 1, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Jeff wrote: > On Apr 1, 2005 2:41 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > >> p.s. How come nobody seems to mind when *I* talk about myself? I >> figure my anecdotes are just too inane for anyone to care... > > We just dismiss you with the time-honored phrase... > > Hey - where's Gnat? > That's funny, my wife does the same thing! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:17:15 -0500 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Mitch Hedburg reap predicted <>*I looked up Mitch Hedburg online and found this review, which predicts his demise. I also found some hilarious quotes, my favourite is "*I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it."<>* * From a Blog written by Shawn Orlando Seabrook Friday, January 21, 2005 Stephen Lynch and Mitch Hedberg. Scranton Cultural Center. January 20, 2005. First up on this comedy double bill; Stephen Lynch was funny as humanly possible. New songs ("I'm Satan, Whoo Hoo!!!" was excellent), new material added to older songs (college years added to the song "Special Ed"), and good interplay with the audience. Buy his merchandise at all good retailers (and probably a few bad ones). Then came Mitch Hedberg, and it was a different matter altogether. The man that many have called the new Stephen Wright (deadpan delivery), the man that has the line "...if carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be all fucked up..." did not turn up at the SCC. What we got instead was a man that arrived drunk (and possibly as high as a kite) and proceeded to get more wasted through his set. Not on carrots either. Hedberg was a mess, unable to hide behind his usual 'laid back' stage persona. Audience members were trying to help him, shouting out the beginnings of some of his routines to help him remember his own act. He would mumble incoherently at times, remember parts of his act from the prompts, laugh at the joke before he got to the punchline (the "koala infestation" joke was one example of this) and by the end of his set was return-heckling the audience members that were rightly disappointed in the man's performance. He died up there, and finally started prompting the crowd to cheer louder at his next "set piece" so he could leave on a high note. Outside in the freezing cold, a man was selling screen-printed Mitch Hedberg t-shirts for $5 and was probably wondering why business was so slack. Watching the one-man train wreck that unfolded before our eyes, it sadly reminded me of Lenny Bruce. Another comedy genius that pushed the boundary of what was deemed acceptable, Bruce died of a drug overdose at the age of 39. Mitch Hedberg is only three years younger and it looks like, unless he gets himself cleared up, he could be emulating the "live fast, die young" performer that had his life cut short in the sixties." Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:26:21 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: reap - *another* politician's credibility* (among divers alarums) Carrie Galbraith wrote: >On 01.04.2005, at 00:52, Jeff wrote: > > List Psychic position...filled! > >Don't forget our vexillologist down under! Hey, I'm keeping outta this. And the list psychic position was filled a couple of days before it was advertised. > > Pope John Paul > > >I was just watching CNN, and JP2's demise does not seem to be a >confirmed fact. Must be true. I heard if from Kurt Vonnegut. Oh, and what's that word - schadenfreude?: 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, 1 Apr 2005 18:10:11 -0600 From: Jeff Subject: Re: reap - *another* politician's credibility* (among divers alarums) On Apr 1, 2005 5:26 PM, James Dignan wrote: > Oh, and what's that word - schadenfreude?: > That goes right along with this one - - and eeek, look at that photo! I wonder how long till these organizations figure out that, hey, if you're an all-male organization dealing with youths, and you completely cloister and closet the issues of sexuality, particularly gay sexuality, you're going to positively attract creepy closet-cases who figure that, hey, who'd ever think a priest would harbor the horns for little boys? (well, until recently...) or who'd every suspect an upright, upstanding Scout leader? Anyone with any sense... Organizations that force people to hide their sexuality naturally attract people hiding their own sexuality...and usually, people who do that aren't terribly well-adjusted shall we say. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:13:09 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Reap Jeff wrote: > Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Frank Perdue, Meat Purveyor > > > > Lauren, wondering if I'm still too new to 'Reap' > > You're never too new to "reap"! In fact, the ultimate goal is for someone's first post to be a reap. > I just hope there's not an afterwordly accounting mixup - > so the Pope ends up being eternally pecked by angry > vicious chickens, and Perdue ends up buggered by demons > dressed as choirboys. Let's just hope one of the necrophiliacs don't attack Michael Schiavo for allowing either the pope of Frank Perdue's deaths on their way home from Florida. "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." -- Mitch Hedberg 1968-2005 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:20:00 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Job opening > Not that I'm a big supporter of the Pope, but at least > during his reign the Vatican did come out and support > evolutionary theory. And they finally acquited Gallileo of heresy. So really, JP was more of 16th or 17th century thinker. "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." -- Mitch Hedberg 1968-2005 Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:48:27 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Son of Kong http://img-nex.kongisking.net/kong/movies/day123-480x270-mpeg4.mov Perhaps one of the best April Fools Day gags out there. - -Steve (soon to be smoldering on a Fall Levi's print ad campaign for 3d animators?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 21:59:14 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: The Mars Volta On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Dane Horsfeld wrote: > I don't know if The Mars Volta is too metal for most of you, but I was > listening to Francis The Mute last night and thinking about how cool I > figured it was going to be from the song titles (ooops) when I > imagined Robyn saying "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus" as part of one of his > stories. It totally sounds like a name he would use. Too bad the > record bites my ass. > > But hey, I don't want to jump to conclusions. Anyone else heard this > record? Will it become cool if I listen to it more? Would it sound > better if I still got baked all the time? I bet I know the answer to > that last one... I've only heard bits of the new one on the way to lunch. TMV seems to me to be one of those bands that you've got to acknowledge as having something, but that something might not be to your taste. Having said that, I'm sure I'll get around to buying the album at some point. Cool name, too. After TC's question, I asked my young coworker (no possessive) if he had seen them live. He said yes, but that he had eaten way too many mushrooms and thus couldn't tell the music from the crowd noise or, for that matter, the flushing of a toilet on one of his 50 trips to the men's room. I suggested that another substance, or perhaps none, would be more appropriate for the actual enjoyment of the live music experience. He said that he would try that the next time. - - Steve __________ Shortly after becoming Attorney General, John Ashcroft was headed abroad. An advance team showed up at the American embassy in the Hague to check out the digs, saw cats in residence, and got nervous. They were worried there might be a calico cat. No, they were told, no calicos. Visible relief. Their boss, they explained, believes calico cats are signs of the devil. - Andrew Tobias, 11/20/01 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:12:07 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Guardian scoop -- prog not dead! On Apr 1, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/ > 0,12102,1449094,00.html Are any of the other neo-prog bands as good as Porcupine Tree? - - Steve __________ Miyazaki combines a grownup's humanity with the free imagination that many of us possessed at the age of 7 and that all but the geniuses lost. - Sarah Kerr, Vogue ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:35:26 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: Chicago setlist 4-1-05 (yowza!) On a chilly, rain-whipped spring evening a tall, grey-haired man in a black and white polka-dot shirt emerged from the dressing room of Schuba's in Chicago and proceeded to sign the jcard for my bootleg copy of "Rout of the Clones." No, wait - that was after the show. And what a show it was: (acoustic set) 1. Glass [my buddy's request] 2. I Got a Message for You 3. Globe of Frogs 4. Winchester 5. Not Dark Yet (Dylan) 6. No, I Don't Remember Guildford 7. Trilobite [breaks a string: "Oh fuck."] (electric set starts sooner than planned) 8. Vibrating 9. She Doesn't Exist [with big delay] 10. Going Down to Liverpool (Rew) 11. Man with a Woman's Shadow 12. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Dylan) [juiced up electric version] 13. Swirling [my request ;)] 14. ? Venture Rocket Ship [new] 15. Wax Doll 16. Medley [with unbelievably big delay]: Who Do You Love (Diddley) > Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles) [lengthy pause for string change on acoustic] (acoustic encore) 17. Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees) > Listening to the Higsons [again troubadour style, wandering around the room] Even sitting at home now, I'm still coming to grips with the setlist. Four of my all-time seven favorite Robyn songs were played (Winchester, Swirling, Wax Doll, and Guildford)! Plus rarities like Glass and Going Down to Liverpool, and an insane take on Bo Diddley. What an amazing show. As he was the early show with a cutoff time, things moved along quite rapidly - there was only one monologue that I recall, that being the usual Trilobite intro that is longer than the song. Over the two nights it was the least amount that I've ever heard Robyn extemporize at the mic. His voice was fantastic, having noticeably achieved a nice resonance in the low end, especially on songs like Not Dark Yet. Wouldn't rate the guitar skills as highly, but still enjoyable. More business with the hair, blinking at a minimum. And again afterwards, the signing of shirts and CD's and whatnot in the bar with a glass of wine. Michael "Mrs. Watson, all your children..." Wells ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 10:21:43 +0100 From: "Marc Hewson" Subject: New Moon At The Turf, March 31st 2005 After a pleasant afternoon's shopping in Oxford and an incredibly cheap meal in the Gloucester Arms, we got to the Turf Tavern at about 7:30, far too early but it meant we got a prime seat in front of the playing area. The Turf is the oldest pub in Oxford (and one of the oldest in England) and consists of a bewildering series of interconected bars (with very low beams) and courtyards, one of which was the setting for the evening's entertainment. Although covered from the rain, it was an extremely damp and cold night which made it harder for the musicians to play and the audience to enjoy. To their credit, all the acts managed to overcome this handicap and give an excellent performance. First on was a young arabic guy named Tarrick who played the oud, the forerunner of the western guitar. This was fascinating for me as hitherto the oud had just been a name in the credits of Kaleidescope (US) albums and it was good to be able to match the sound with the instrument. And what a lovely sound it is - hypnotic drones and intriuging flights of melody which, as Catherine said, made you think of warm desert sands instead of a cold spring night in Oxford. Tarrick went down very well with the growing audience, getting an encore on which he sang, his voice complementing his oud playing perfectly. Next up was a young guy named Jo Swarbrick (no relation) who told us he was in a band called Sexy Breakfast and was also playing in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. His songs were indeed somewhat theatrical in nature and probably work better in that context but he had some interesting lyrics in amongst the cliches and, with some editing, he could be one to watch. Mark Bosley played an unfortunately short but enjoyable set that included a lovely cover of 'Wish You Were Here' (dedicated to "the two Matts") amongst his own songs.These sounded interesting but the words were hard to catch due to the increasingly noisy audience. Anton Barbeau (billed on the poster as "Anto Bairbean"!) was next, swapping with the New Moon due to "imminent nervous breakdown and frozen pizza" (!) and was a revelation to us, never having heard him before. His banter was hilarious, taking the piss out of the British accent and our colloquialisms, but his songs were amzingly astute and melodic beneath the humour. Being Californian, he suffered most from the cold but still had the crowd in the palm of his hand and we were reluctant to let him go. Finally, the New Moon came on at about 10:20 which was a shame as we had to leave at 11 to catch the bus home but we caught most of their set. With a line up of guitar/vocals, double bass and tablas, they had a surprisingly full sound, the guitar setting up droning melodies underpinned by the bass. Matt's songs show a Hitchcock influence, to my ears, but not in any way derivative, and his vocals were strong and blended nicely with the bass player's harmonies. The addition of local legend Frei Zinger on flute for the final number that we heard brought another dimension to the sound with fantastic interplay between the four instruments. It would have been great if the oud player had joined in but he'd left earlier. Unfortunately by this time we were thoroughly chilled to the bone and had to leave for the bus, so didn't have time to chat with Matt other than a quick "hello". We'll definitely check out the New Moon at the next opportunity, but prefferably indoors! Tulloch PS Catherine took a few snaps which I'll try and post up on my fledgling website. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:37:45 +0000 From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net Subject: Re: Reap > In fact, the ultimate goal is for someone's first post to > be a reap. Or to announce that they're unsubbing. > Let's just hope one of the necrophiliacs don't attack > Michael Schiavo for allowing either the pope of Frank > Perdue's deaths on their way home from Florida. Wouldn't they be "vivophiliacs? Jon the vitrophiliac ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 10:25:59 -0600 From: Jeff Subject: Re: Son of Kong On Apr 1, 2005 9:48 PM, Steve Talkowski wrote: > http://img-nex.kongisking.net/kong/movies/day123-480x270-mpeg4.mov > > Perhaps one of the best April Fools Day gags out there. Okay - I completely and utterly don't get this. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:34:15 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Son of Kong >> http://img-nex.kongisking.net/kong/movies/day123-480x270-mpeg4.mov >> >> Perhaps one of the best April Fools Day gags out there. > > Okay - I completely and utterly don't get this. The joke wasn't all that funny, though they certainly worked hard on delivering it. But when did Jackson lose all that weight?? I didn't even recognize him at first. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:38:39 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Long may you run NEW YORK (Billboard) - Neil Young is recovering from surgery to address a brain aneurysm. After performing with the Pretenders on March 14 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York, the artist experienced what his publicist describes as "visual field disturbances," and an MRI scan revealed the source of the problem. Rather than have surgery immediately, Young spent the next week in Nashville recording for an as-yet-unrevealed project. Tuesday's (March 29) procedure has been called "a complete success," and Young is expected to make a full recovery. But the artist has been forced to cancel his planned Sunday (April 3) appearance at Canada's Juno Awards while he recuperates. "I grew up (in Winnipeg) and was really looking forward to the show as well as spending some time with my old friends and family," Young said in a statement. "Thanks to my doctors, I'm feeling a lot better now, so I hope I can get a rain check." Reuters/Billboard ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:56:17 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: MGM DVD cover images: Storefront Hitchcock So yesterday, I know, but MGM seem to have left all their cover art on an open server: So f'rinstance, here's Storefront Hitchcock: Stewart (who would almost buy a TV to see the 'Fungus The Bogeyman' miniseries) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 14:04:08 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: reap Some guy in Rome, 84 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 23:16:17 +0300 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: REAP JIIPII, as we called him in San Francisco. - - c ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 23:31:24 +0000 From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net Subject: Re: REAP My vote for next Pope would go to Cardinal Sin of the Phillipines. He's so refreshingly medieval. - -------------- Original message -------------- > JIIPII, as we called him in San Francisco. > - c ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #86 *******************************