From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #177 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, July 23 2005 Volume 14 : Number 177 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: News to me [Steve Schiavo ] Re: News to me [Steve Schiavo ] what the book says [Jill Brand ] Re: News to me [Jeff ] Re: News to me [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: Adriaaaaaan! ["David Stovall" ] Most interestin' [Eb ] Roll call [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:31:20 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: News to me On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:54 PM, Eb wrote: > "Jason contracted advanced periorbital cellulitis with bilateral > pnuemonia with rapid deterioration requiring intensive care and c- > pap for type 1 respiratory failure." A bacterial infection in the mouth, which lead to pnuemonia in both lungs. A c-pap is a breathing assistance machine, often used by people with sleep apnea. Heroin use might well lead to a suppressed immune system. - - Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:38:21 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: News to me >> Anyway, I highly recommend the Genshiken anime, which comes out >> next Tuesday. On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:57 PM, Eb wrote: > Here's a thought -- try watching a film which contains > people and a sense of reality. Characters can be interesting even > if they DON'T have giant pie-sized eyes, y'know. I forgot to add that volume 2 of the Genshiken manga (Del Rey) is also being released next Tuesday. So a trip to the bookstore would allow fegs to assess the eye size of the Genshiken characters. The characters in Kujibiki Unbalance, Genshiken's anime-within-an-anime, do indeed have large eyes. Some of them, at least. - - Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:24:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: what the book says I have been following with some note the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory discussion. I never read it as a child, so my first real exposure to it was when I read it to my children (and subsequently saw the Gene Wilder version on video). I think the book is spellbinding, and last year decided to start having my intermediate/high intermediate adult ESL students read it. I had had enough with dumbed-down versions of already not great fiction (you can get almost all of John Grisham's novels adapted for ESL students - woohoo), and knew a whole world of great kid books (Roald Dahl books, Harry Potter - which I already use with more advanced students, Lois Lowry books, Natalie Babbitt books), which have poetry and humor and wit. Anyway.........I have a date to see the new movie with my students from the spring term next week. They can't wait. However, the reason I'm writing is to clear up the question of what WW looks like on paper, so here is the description from the book. Chapter 14: Mr. Willy Wonka Mr. Wonka was standing all alone just inside the open gates of the factory. And what an extraordinary little man he was! He had a black top hat on his head. He wore a tail coat made of a beautiful plum-colored velvet. His trousers were bottle green. His gloves were pearly gray. And in one hand he carried a fine gold-tipped walking cane. Covering his chin, there was a small neat pointed black beard - a goatee. And his eyes - his eyes were most marvelously bright. They seemed to be sparkling and twinkling at you all the time. The whole face, in fact, was light with fun and laughter. And oh, how clever he looked! How quick and sharp and full of life! He kept making quick jerky little movements with his head, cocking it this way and that, and taking everything in with those bright twinkling eyes. He was like a squirrel in the quickness of his movements, like a quick clever old squirrel from the park. [Snip] His voice was high and flutey. That's what the book says. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:37:10 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: Re: News to me On 7/21/05, Eb wrote: > >> http://www.nme.co.uk/news/113078.htm > > > > "as-yet-unspecified illness"? Well, knowing what a clean-living lad > > young Mr. Pierce is, I'm absolutely certain that this has not a shred > > of connection to heroin. > > The Spiritualized website says: > > "Jason contracted advanced periorbital cellulitis with bilateral > pnuemonia with rapid deterioration requiring intensive care and c-pap > for type 1 respiratory failure." > > Whew, that's a mouthful. And seemingly, not so related to heroin? Well...a websearch on "heroin cellulitis pneumonia" will tell you that...uh, yeah, they are. Not that I expected you (or me) to have known that in advance - but I'm guessing that Mr. Pierce's medical problems are indeed related to his chemical preferences. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:46:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: News to me Eb wrote: > http://www.nme.co.uk/news/113078.htm I think I've seem Spiritualized live more times than any other band that I don't like due to them opening for bands I did want to see (or, as when they toured with Curve and The Jesus and Mary Chain, between them). Not that I wish Jason Pierce anything but a full recovery, of course. "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: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:03:59 -0700 From: "David Stovall" Subject: RE: Adriaaaaaan! >From: The Great Quail >Subject: Adriaaaaaan! >I saw Adrian Belew last night. >Wow -- I mean, wow. Look, I love Adrian Belew. A lot. ... >But last night -- wow. He was with a band, a pretty good drummer and a >bassist named Mike Gallagher, this piratical looking cat who played his bass >more like an electric guitar. Incredible stuff. They played less like >Adrian's back-up musicians, and more like a full-fledged band. I saw (and taped) the show in Cinci on 15 July (with an acoustic opening set by Rob Fetters and Chris Arduser, two of Ade's co-Bears), and have to agree with you on all counts, except one. That being, to my ear, the drummer (Mike Hodges?) was also borderline brilliant. Despite a couple songs where either a) he just didn't quite lock into the groove (as opined by a friend of mine who was also at the show, and whose percussion-related opinions I have to trust, since he's a drum-n-bugle-corps type percussion teacher), or b) just chose a groove to lock into that bore only a tenuous, abstract linkage to the other instrumental parts,... I thought he was commanding and had a real flair. The bassist, I'm 100% with ya - and he was playing a Parker Fly bass, which was: Bad. Ass. Who knew they even had those? I didn't, before seeing this show. Maybe it's not a "Fly", but it's definitely a Parker; Adrian's playing Parker Flys ("Flies" just looks wrong when it's the guitar), and slung two of them during the Cinci show - a red one, and a sorta copper-colored one. There's already been one or two of this tour's shows come across Dimeadozen, for those who are privileged. Once I get my main computer rebuilt from the fourth (!) hard-drive-fry this year, I could probably be convinced to run off copies of what I have,... da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:21:00 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Most interestin' Former Doors drummer wins suit against bandmates By Dean Goodman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The former drummer for The Doors won a permanent injunction on Friday preventing his bandmates from using the rock group's name while touring with a revamped version of the legendary 1960s act. The Los Angeles Superior Court order also requires keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger, who have been touring as The Doors of the 21st Century, to turn over all the profits earned by the new combo to the original Doors partnership. The decision represents a major victory for Doors drummer John Densmore, who told Reuters he was concerned that the band's legacy was being tarnished by its reincarnation as an oldies act. Manzarek and Krieger, along with British singer Ian Astbury subbing for the late Jim Morrison, are touring Canada as headliners of the "Strange Days" festival, which also features such bands as Steppenwolf, the Yardbirds and Vanilla Fudge. "They're playing Doors songs and calling themselves the Doors of the 21st Century. I kinda think it's the 19th century, it's looking back," said Densmore, who plays original music with his own band Tribal Jazz. He teamed up with Morrison's estate -- represented by the parents of both Morrison and Morrison's late wife, Pamela Courson -- to sue Krieger and Manzarek in early 2003. Under an agreement struck in 1971, the year Morrison died in Paris, all three surviving members as well as the Morrison estate must sign off on any use of the Doors name and logo. "I'm very pleased that, in my opinion, the legacy is preserved," added Densmore. "I never intended for Ray and Robby to stop playing - -- they're great musicians. I hope Doors fans keep going to see them - -- it's just the name is owned by me and them and the estate of Jim Morrison, and they kinda ran off with stolen property." Densmore estimated that Manzarek and Krieger have earned "millions and millions of dollars" on the road in recent years, more than the original band ever made. A management representative for Krieger and Manzarek in Los Angeles did not return a call. The Doors rose to fame in the late 1960s with such songs as "Light My Fire" and "Touch Me." After Morrison, their provocative frontman and self-styled "lizard king," died of a heart attack, the band eventually folded. Its mythology exploded with the 1980 publication of the Doors biography "No One Here Gets Out Alive" and then with Oliver Stone's 1991 movie "The Doors." The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, with the three members reuniting for a few songs behind Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:24:04 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Roll call Chad Gates Charlie Rogers Clint Reno Danny Fisher Glenn Tyler Greg Nolan Guy Lambert Jess Wade Jimmy Tompkins Jodie Tatum Joe Lightcloud John Carpenter Johnny Tyronne Josh Morgan Lonnie Beale Lucky Jackson Mike Edwards Mike McCoy Mike Windgren Pacer Burton Rick Richards Ross Carpenter Rusty Wells Scott Heyward Steve Grayson Ted Jackson Toby Kwimper Tulsa McLean Vince Everett Walter Gulick Walter Hale ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #177 ********************************