From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #132 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, May 24 2005 Volume 14 : Number 132 Today's Subjects: ----------------- tomorrow, tomorrow (and the next day, too) [Jill Brand ] RE: Wheeee! ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: same old same old [James Dignan ] Re: Meltdown [James Dignan ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Mummified Nik Turner [Steve Schiavo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 19:18:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: tomorrow, tomorrow (and the next day, too) My birthday buddy wrote: "BTW, The Decemberists rocked The Phoenix last night." I hope to God they do the same in Burlington, VT tomorrow, as I've decided that just the Boston gig was not going to be enough for me. I really thought I was beyond solo road trips, but I've surprised myself in a nice sort of way. Maybe I can drag race their van on my way back to Boston. The weather here SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone else in the northeast about ready to lose it? Jill, with powerlines in her bloodlines ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:49:23 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Wheeee! Jeff wrote: > The Great Quail wrote: > > I also saw "Revenge of the Sith" on Friday, and -- It did > > not suck. (And after the last two films, that's saying a > > lot.) In fact, I'd even go so far as to say it was pretty > > good. I mean, Lucas may never learn how to write > > convincing dialogue, and Natalie Portman may never learn > > how to act, > > Well, Natalie Portman has been good in other movies. The > problem there is that Amidala is just a horribly conceived > character who behaves in this movie in a way that is > completely antithetical to how she was presented in the > first one -- no actress ever could have sold that shit. > Plus, having her change her hair every damn scene she's in > is beyond distracting. I'll concur on this one. Get a hairstyle and stick with it. However, it wasn't really her hair I was noticing so much as that she has lost weight against where she was in Episode II, and she didn't look as good. Heck, Natalie in Episode II may have hit that Audrey Hepburn level of cuteness, but she looked almost skeletal at times in this one. Which is too bad for me, because she is my destiny :D > > > and there's all kinds of nitpicks I could > > make: but the image of a young, fiery Darth Vader as a > > fallen Romantic hero was surprisingly powerful; and Ewan > > McGregor steals the show. > > I thought Hayden Christiansen was surprisingly good, but > Ian McDiarmid may laughably awful. If his seduction > technique of Annikin to the dark side had been any less > subtle, his cock would have been hanging out of his robe. > Ray Charles would have seen that crap coming from miles > away, and he's both blind AND dead! The action sequences > were really terrific though, McGregor was shatteringly > good. I don't think this is a spoiler, but if it is I apologize in advance: the seduction scene was not only hokey from Ian McDiarmid, but the way Annikin was swayed was practically bizarre. One minute he's going one way, the next minute he's going another way, the next minute a third way and finally he settles down and lets himself go to the dark side. After it let out, I commented on this to the friend who went with me to this and asked him to explain it to me, and he came up with something vaguely plausible, but it sure jumped out at me as very, very improbable the way it went down. With now 24 years to think up how that scene might have worked, I would have hoped for something with a little more meat to it. > SPOILER re: Natalie Portman > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The problem with her performance is that the Amidala were > given in Phantom Menace -- a strong, confident girl-queen > --is reduced to being a simpering mess with less backbone > than bowl of mis-set jello. The Amidala from Episode 1 > wouldn't have just stood there blubbering that Annikin had > broken her heart -- she'd've fucking shot him (or at least > tried)! Lucas should have had her die in childbirth from > injuries suffered at Annikin's hand, not of a broken heart > over his betrayal. I'm not sure she was ever so strong that she would have shot him, but I agree that the broken heart thing was weak. However, it did fit in because she was pretty emotionally scarred by the whole thing. That said, I agree with your conclusion--if he had killed her, or at least hurt her enough with his force-choke that she had spontaneously gone into labor then as Annikin left her not knowing if she would live or die, that would have been much more powerful than what they made it out to be, which was that the birth took place some significant amount of time after that encounter. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:38:26 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: same old same old >Anyway -hi from down under from the commander and don't worry folks , I >ain't gonna fill yer mailbox with rants about anything like I used to >do as I just haven't got the time. One thing though , I have recently >been introduced to sound tribe sector nine , and I can highly recommend >their music if you like trippy drum and bass and psychedelic sounds >mixed , check them out at the live music archive . Eek! Dlang's back! Mmm... sound tribe sector nine sounds like it's worth checking out... 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: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:42:23 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Meltdown >Friday 24th June Royal Festival Hall. >US / UK Folk Connections >Feat. Lenny Kaye, Johnny Marr & The Healers, Bert Jansch, Robyn Hitchcock, >Roy Harper and Patti Smith > >That could lead to some interesting collaborations.... damn. I'm on the wrong side of the planet again :( Don't know Lenny Kaye, but any two of the others in combination would be effin amazing. 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: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:27:36 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap Circus impresario Billy Smart Jr, 71. (whose circus was the one and only one I've ever seen. I think I was four.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:20:50 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Mummified Nik Turner Those Annoying Post Bros. & Nik Turner in "The Anubis Horn." Those Annoying Post Bros. embark on another crime against nature when they journey through the Necronomicon and find a mummified Nik Turner, founding member of acid space rock band Hawkwind! Turner is one of the few who have mastered the Resurrection Chord, making him the target of a certain Egyptian god of the dead who wants very much to be reanimated! Should be out July-ish. - - Steve ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #132 ********************************