From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #163 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 5 2005 Volume 14 : Number 163 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock 1989-04-25 McCabe's, Santa Monica, CA - Set 1 (RESEED) ["Marc Hold] RE: I'm doing this for free ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: MTV & Live 8 ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: MTV & Live 8 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: I'm doing this for free [Jeff ] adrian belew on tour ["michael wells" ] Re: I'm doing this for free ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: I'm doing this for free [Jeff Dwarf ] honest to goodness robyn news! [wojizzle forizzle ] NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock 1987-07-18 , McCabes, Santa Monica, CA (RESEED) [wojizzle forizzle ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:34:58 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock 1989-04-25 McCabe's, Santa Monica, CA - Set 1 (RESEED) >>12. Space Odyssey (NOT the David Bowie song!!) Not the Byrds song either... Element of Air and Librarian are pretty interesting, too. Nice Julian Cope cover. You've Got is one of the songs I've most wanted to see him play. A great CD set here. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:14:03 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: I'm doing this for free Jeff, I'm genuinely shocked you don't know this... I mean I know that the US isn't too bothered about world news, but sheesh... Cheers Matt >From: Jeff >Reply-To: Jeff >To: Not Reg >Subject: I'm doing this for free >Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 23:20:17 -0500 > >On 7/2/05, Eb wrote: > > Live8 performances which I'd care to see: > >Okay, I'm sure I read it somewhere once but - why is it called >"Live8"? Why "8"? (other than being a number that puns on "aid") > > >-- > >...Jeff > >The Architectural Dance Society >http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:21:13 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: MTV & Live 8 Actually Scots beer is very nice - particularly Deuchars IPA - brewed in Edinburgh I believe. If you've ever been to Edinburgh you would have been blown away by the combined smell of the distilleries, the breweries and the bakeries. Irish beer... well, apart from the big names (guinness, murphys, mcAffreys et al) I don't know any to compare. Nb: porter and stout aren't purely Irish. Also I've seen many more kilts here in Oxford than I did on any visit to Scotland. Cheers Matt >From: The Great Quail >Oh, and the summit is in Scotland, not Ireland. I mean, there's a bit of a >difference -- they still wear kilts in Scotland, and drink worse beer. > >--Quail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 08:23:51 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: MTV & Live 8 Matt Sewell wrote: > Actually Scots beer is very nice - particularly Deuchars IPA - brewed in > Edinburgh I believe. Yup; Caldeonian Brewery; also makes Caley 80/- (which you can get on draft here - yay!), Golden Promise, Edinburgh XXX and Merman Ale. The latter two are *real* falling-over waters. Innis & Gunn Oak Aged Ale also comes from Edinburgh, and I adore it. But you can't get it here. Time to visit Scotland again! cheers, Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:09:30 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: Re: I'm doing this for free On 7/4/05, Matt Sewell wrote: > Jeff, I'm genuinely shocked you don't know this... > > I mean I know that the US isn't too bothered about world news, but > sheesh... I think I'm just less up on the Bob Geldof/superannuated artist/mega-show news than on world politics - although honestly, I'm always a couple days/weeks behind on the news cycle, since rather than read daily papers or watch TV news, I read weekly/monthly journals supplemented by online sources. And I've been less up-on-it lately, since we've had friends visiting us for the past week or so. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:57:10 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: adrian belew on tour After seeing the peripatetic one tour solo on Friday, thought I'd post a quick note. I'd not seen him solo before, and was told that he did a lot of "rare" or "never played live before" stuff.I do know that it was freaking /excellent/, technical problems associated with an outdoor festival notwithstanding. If you're at all a fan, check out www.adrianbelew.net and see if you can catch a show. You just can't have enough minor-key arpeggios and squealing solos, know what I mean? Michael "David Lee Roth was playing the same night, and I heard he sucked" Wells Ps. the next night was BOC - woo! (MRG: including a fifteen minute, runaway train version of "Then Came the Last Days of May"!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:33:45 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: I'm doing this for free Aah... forgive the gruff Monday morning tone, but over here there's been no getting away from not just Geldoff and Bonio et al, but also the G8 summit... guess Tony Blair is about to find out just how much political capital his support for the war in Iraq has garnered when the G8 discusses climate change! Cheers Matt >From: Jeff jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com > >On 7/4/05, Matt Sewell wrote: > > Jeff, I'm genuinely shocked you don't know this... > > > > I mean I know that the US isn't too bothered about world news, but > > sheesh... > >I think I'm just less up on the Bob Geldof/superannuated >artist/mega-show news than on world politics - although honestly, I'm >always a couple days/weeks behind on the news cycle, since rather than >read daily papers or watch TV news, I read weekly/monthly journals >supplemented by online sources. And I've been less up-on-it lately, >since we've had friends visiting us for the past week or so. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:52:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: I'm doing this for free Matt Sewell wrote: > guess Tony Blair is about to find out just how much > political capital his support for the war in Iraq has > garnered when the G8 discusses climate change! Which means he's the last person to know that Bush will, in so many words, tell him to fuck off.... "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." -- Mitch Hedberg . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:45:30 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: honest to goodness robyn news! from the auditorium .... New Japanesse CD Release The Oak Tree label in Japan is releasing a new Robyn Hitchcock compilation, Obliteration Pie. This 16 song set includes some new, live and rare recordings, as well as two videos. We wil have a limited quantity available for sale are accepting orders for these now, with the shipment due to arrive in the second half of July, at which time orders will be promptly filled. Obliteration Pie can be purchased from http://www.robynhitchcock.com/giftshop.htm. Track List 1. Madonna of the Wasps (new recording) 2. City of Women 3. I Fall Into Your Eyes 4. Arms of Love (new recording) 5. A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations, Briggs 6. Madelaine 7. Let thesun Begin 8. My Dreams are Scars 9. Frank Sinatra (verbal) 10. My Wife and My Dead Wife (live) 11. Chinese Bones (live) 12. Funkytown 13. Butterfly 14. Queen Elvis (new recording) 15. The Man With the Lightbulb Head (original recording and video) 16. I Often Dream of Trains (original recording and video) Robyn will be doing a short Japanese tour in October: Friday 7 & Saturday 8 - Tokyo - Minaiaoyama Mandala (TEL: 03-5474-0411) Monday, Bankholiday 10 - Osaka - Knave (TEL: 06-6535-0691) For more information: http://www.mplant.com/robyn.html and in English: http://www.mplant.com/robyn/tourinfo05_eng.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:40:00 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock 1987-07-18 , McCabes, Santa Monica, CA (RESEED) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=49298&hit=1 A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 49298 Title: Robyn Hitchcock 1987-07-18 , McCabes, Santa Monica, CA (RESEED) Size: 830.31 MB Category: Rock'n'Roll Uploaded by: softboygirl Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a reseed by request. It's two great shows in SHN format. The original seeder was rh60 who seeded this on STG. I thank him for sharing this wonderful show! Listening to Robyn is way more fun than fireworks, so download :) Here's the originial info file: << Robyn Hitchcock July 18, 1987 McCabe's Santa Monica, California US Source: Analog Cassette Master (microphones unknown) -> DAT (32kHz)-> PC (vi Lynx One digital I/O) -> SHN Fade in/outs, resampling, and normalization to 0 dB via Sound Forge. Track splits via cdwave. DAT obtained in trade in June, 1996, converted to SHN July, 2004. Early Set (Running time: 62:13, SHN size: 371MB) 1. Intro/banter 2. A Globe of Frogs 3. Autumn is Your Last Chance 4. I Got the Hots 5. banter... 6. Raymond Chandler Evening 7. banter... 8. Trash 9. banter.. 10. Insect Mother 11. Agony of Pleasure 12. banter... 13. Man Who Invented Himself 14. banter... 15. Ted, Woody, and Junior 16. The Angel Upstairs 17. banter... 18. I Got a Message For You 19. Sleeping with Your Devil Mask 20. banter... 21. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out Late Set: (Running Time: 71:53, SHN size: 458MB) 1. Intro/banter 2. A Globe of Frogs 3. I Often Dream of Trains 4. banter... 5. I Got the Hots 6. banter... 7. Raymond Chandler Evening 8. banter... 9. Trash 10. banter... 11. Insect Mother 12. banter... 13. Agony of Pleasure 14. banter... 15. Man Who Invented Himself 16. Flavour of Night 17. Fifty Two Stations 18. banter... 19. I Got a Message For You 20. Sleeping with Your Devil Mask 21. President 22. Donna Summer 23. False Knight on the Road [Traditional, arr. Tim Hart] 24. banter... 25. Went to See the Gypsy [Bob Dylan] Note: This is a very fine show, with Robyn in fine form, as he banters with the audience. Some noise as microphones are repositioned early on, but overall the sound is very good. >> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:29:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Portland proves Bush wrong on climate change From the New York Times: July 3, 2005 A Livable Shade of Green By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF PORTLAND, Ore. When President Bush travels to the Group of 8 summit meeting this week, he'll stiff Tony Blair and other leaders who are appealing for firm action on global warming. "Kyoto would have wrecked our economy," Mr. Bush told a Danish interviewer recently, referring to the accord to curb carbon emissions. Maybe that was a plausible argument a few years ago, but now the city of Portland is proving it flat wrong. Newly released data show that Portland, America's environmental laboratory, has achieved stunning reductions in carbon emissions. It has reduced emissions below the levels of 1990, the benchmark for the Kyoto accord, while booming economically. What's more, officials in Portland insist that the campaign to cut carbon emissions has entailed no significant economic price, and on the contrary has brought the city huge benefits: less tax money spent on energy, more convenient transportation, a greener city, and expertise in energy efficiency that is helping local businesses win contracts worldwide. "People have looked at it the wrong way, as a drain," said Mayor Tom Potter, who himself drives a Prius hybrid. "Actually it's something that attracts people. ... It's economical; it makes sense in dollars." I've been torn about what to do about global warming. But the evidence is growing that climate change is a real threat: I was bowled over when I visited the Arctic and talked to Eskimos who described sea ice disappearing, permafrost melting and visits by robins, for which they have no word in the local language. In the past, economic models tended to discourage aggressive action on greenhouse gases, because they indicated that the cost of curbing carbon emissions could be extraordinarily high, amounting to perhaps 3 percent of G.N.P. That's where Portland's experience is so crucial. It confirms the suggestions of some economists that we can take initial steps against global warming without economic disruptions. Then in a decade or two, we can decide whether to proceed with other, costlier steps. In 1993, Portland became the first local government in the United States to adopt a strategy to deal with climate change. The latest data, released a few weeks ago, show the results: Greenhouse gas emissions last year in Multnomah County, which includes Portland, dropped below the level of 1990, and per capita emissions were down 13 percent. This was achieved partly by a major increase in public transit, including two light rail lines and a streetcar system. The city has also built 750 miles of bicycle paths, and the number of people commuting by foot or on bicycle has increased 10 percent. Portland offers all city employees either a $25-per-month bus pass or car pool parking. Private businesses are told that if they provide employees with subsidized parking, they should also subsidize bus commutes. The city has also offered financial incentives and technical assistance to anyone constructing a "green building" with built-in energy efficiency. Then there are innumerable little steps, such as encouraging people to weatherize their homes. Portland also replaced the bulbs in the city's traffic lights with light-emitting diodes, which reduce electricity use by 80 percent and save the city almost $500,000 a year. "Portland's efforts refute the thesis that you can't make progress without huge economic harm," says Erik Sten, a city commissioner. "It actually goes all the other way - to the extent Portland has been successful, the things that we were doing that happened to reduce emissions were the things that made our city livable and hence desirable." Mr. Sten added that Portland's officials were able to curb carbon emissions only because the steps they took were intrinsically popular and cheap, serving other purposes like reducing traffic congestion or saving on electrical costs. "I haven't seen that much willingness even among our environmentalists," he said, "to do huge masochistic things to save the planet." So as he heads to the summit meeting, Mr. Bush should get a briefing on Portland's experience (a full report is at www.sustainableportland.org) and accept that we don't need to surrender to global warming. Perhaps eventually we will face hard trade-offs. But for now Portland shows that we can help our planet without "wrecking" our economy - indeed, at no significant cost at all. At the Group of 8, that should be a no-brainer. E-mail: nicholas@nytimes.com - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:08:27 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Arthurly? Hmm... bad news this end - it appears that Arthur Lee won't make the upcoming UK tour, even though the rest of the band are having to do the shows 'cos it's all paid for... rumour has it (and I hope it has it wrong) that Arthur's in rehab... I can't believe my terrible gig luck so far this year - missed The Magic Band here in Oxford (did an ill-advised gig on the same night), The MC5 (with surprise guest Julian Cope) here too. Then I missed the Meltdown (too slow for tix to the Horses gig, a mate's birthday on the Robyn night). Cheers Matt, determined to make the Stooges gig in Aug... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #163 ********************************