From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #214 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, September 5 2005 Volume 14 : Number 214 Today's Subjects: ----------------- asahi.com interview [wojizzle forizzle ] REAP ["Maximilian Lang" ] reap ["michael wells" ] Re: reap [Steve Schiavo ] Re: reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: reap [Steve Schiavo ] Re: reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: The new beginning. [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Feels like 1974-7 [Sebastian Hagedorn ] of course you aren't [Jill Brand ] Re: The new beginning. [Eb ] Ragin Cajun weather [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 22:25:32 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: asahi.com interview http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200509020090.html In Sight / Music: Robyn Hitchcock's off-the-wall wit is right on target 09/02/2005 The songs of Robyn Hitchcock don't just bear repeated listening-they demand it. Want clear-cut confessions about life and love in easily digestible three-minute chunks? You've got the wrong guy. Though Hitchcock's melodies are accessible, his worldview takes some getting used to. A singular talent who was making gorgeous pop with the Soft Boys during the heyday of British punk, the London native continues to go his slightly skewed way as a solo artist. His latest disc, "Spooked," released here in December by Caraway, was recorded in Nashville. "Obliteration Pie," a Japan-only compilation released Aug. 3 by Oak Tree, features live and new recordings of classic songs. Your lyrics are described as quirky, surrealistic and even Monty Pythonesque. What inspires your lyrical imagery? I write the way I think. I don't censor my thoughts, but I try to edit them. Monty Python hit it big with the musical "Spamalot." Is there a future on Broadway for you? I'm writing a story that links some of my old songs together and could become an animation. An animation on Broadway-that's an idea. The recording of "Spooked" got off to a Bob Dylan-inspired start. Is Dylan still relevant? Like Shakespeare, Dylan will be relevant until human nature changes. "Television," on "Spooked," isn't the first time you've expressed your thoughts about the idiot box. Can you envision someone writing a positive song about TV? Was (the Velvet Underground's) "Heroin" a positive or a negative song about heroin? "Television" is my attempt to serenade an even more influential drug. You once quipped that you wanted to be on the "cult fringe." In some respects, you got what you wished for. Is there an advantage to being out of step with the times and out of touch with the trends? It depends where you are to begin with. I have a good stockpile of nutrients that will probably see me through my creative life. But it's always great to be stimulated. Was your cameo as a "sinister operative" in the recent remake of "The Manchurian Candidate" a result of your previous work with director Jonathan Demme? Exactly. I would love to be in another Jonathan Demme film. As for other movies, that would depend on the script and the director. You wear a lot of hats: musician, writer, painter. Is it worth striving to be a Renaissance man, or is it enough in these time-strapped days to do one thing and do it well? Why are we time-strapped? Because we have too many options. In the metropolitan universe, you are supposed to sample everything. How can you read a book properly if you're supposed to be listening to music, seeing movies, exercising, going on holiday, having a great career and a perfect sex life? No wonder Posh Spice has never read a book. It's always better to concentrate on one thing. In my case that's music, but I can write and draw, so I do a bit of that. I don't have the concentration to be a Renaissance man. Besides, there's no renaissance. - -By Wayne Gabel, Staff Writer(IHT/Asahi: September 2,2005) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:33:17 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: REAP Chief Justice Rehnquist. Max ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:33:22 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: reap Chief Justice Rehnquist, permanently retired at 80. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:14:20 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: reap On Sep 4, 2005, at 12:33 AM, michael wells wrote: > Chief Justice Rehnquist, permanently retired at 80. Giving Bush, the hollow man, even more chance to fuck up the country for another 30 years. - - Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 23:57:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: reap Steve Schiavo wrote: > On Sep 4, 2005, at 12:33 AM, michael wells wrote: > > Chief Justice Rehnquist, permanently retired at 80. > > Giving Bush, the hollow man, even more chance to fuck up > the country for another 30 years. It's not like Rehnquist was going to allow himself to be replaced by a Democrat; if Kerry had won, Rehnquist would have resigned immediately and given Bush and the Senate a chance to railroad in his replacement before January. Even if (I should probably say when) Scalia is given Chief Justice, it won't move the court to the right since you can't find anyone farther right than Rehnquist -- he is the guy who when clerking defended Plessy v. Ferguson in 1954 when doing research for one of the justices for Brown v. Board (a justice who voted in favor of Brown, incidentally) after all. Even Roberts replacing O'Connor still leaves the court with 2 "'moderates" and 3 "liberals," none of whom are inclined to leave any time soon. "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." -- Mitch Hedberg . ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 08:19:09 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: reap On Sep 4, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Even if (I should probably say when) Scalia is given Chief > Justice, it won't move the court to the right since you > can't find anyone farther right than Rehnquist -- Some of the people who Bush has appointed to the lower courts are worse than Rehnquist. Janice Rogers Brown, for example. But the moderate Republican senators might choke on her. It's the 30 more years that's a pity, no matter who he appoints. - - Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 07:05:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: reap Steve Schiavo wrote: > On Sep 4, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Even if (I should probably say when) Scalia is given > Chief > > Justice, it won't move the court to the right since you > > can't find anyone farther right than Rehnquist -- > > Some of the people who Bush has appointed to the lower > courts are worse than Rehnquist. Janice Rogers Brown, > for example. Yeah, but we were just happy to have her off the Cali Supreme Court. Kinda of good news-bad news situation for us. Of course, the reaon Brown and Priscilla Owen are worse than Rehnquist isn't that they are farther right -- it's that they have no respect for precedent and are legally non-chalant. > But the moderate Republican senators might choke on > her. It's the 30 more years that's a pity, no matter > who he appoints. Brown or Owen have no chance of making the SCOTUS, especially after this disaster after Katrina. The blase incompetance of the administration will push a lot of the "moderates" even farther away from the administration and might even drive a few more conservatives into the so-called moderate camp. "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: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 18:15:54 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: The new beginning. - -- Eb is rumored to have mumbled on 22. August 2005 11:19:40 -0700 regarding Re: The new beginning.: > In other news, I recently gave the Stranglers a shot and decided they > are not for me. The singer's voice has no charisma at all, and the > keyboardist is *totally* tasteless. Possibly the worst showoff I've ever > heard who wasn't in a prog band. Check, please! Back from my vacation: I agree but "Golden Brown" still is one of the greatest songs ever recorded, as far as I'm concerned ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 18:46:16 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Feels like 1974-7 - -- Eb is rumored to have mumbled on 21. August 2005 10:05:03 -0700 regarding Re: Feels like 1974-7: >>> *Paul Simon Still crazy after all these years. >> >> I have and enjoy everything released as Simon & Garfunkel. But I >> wonder if that's not plenty. > > From Simon's "electric piano" phase. I don't like that sound. Same here. Coincidentally I tried to listen to it during my vacation, but I gave up after a few songs. I guess it's my least favorite of his solo records. > And "50 > Ways" hasn't aged well. How do you mean? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:19:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: of course you aren't jbj wrote: "Regarding the Elixirs DVD, I already had the VHS edition and chose to buy the DVD when it was released --- even though some nice feg on here made me a burned DVD culled from the VHS release. So I'm not a complete bastard. If I like it, I usually end up buying it." I was kidding. I, of course, waited until Picaresque came out before hearing any of it. Then again, I only learned how to use bittorrent at the very end of March (thanks to countless helpers on this list). Speaking of which...I'll be at the Portland Colin and Robyn show for sure (leaving on a jet plane) along with the right rev Chris Hintz (although he'll be hanging out with important people). I'm not sure of pre-show anything yet because I'm leaving it up to my friend Miriam, but if anyone wants to get together, send me a phone number off-list. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:31:56 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: The new beginning. >> In other news, I recently gave the Stranglers a shot and decided they >> are not for me. The singer's voice has no charisma at all, and the >> keyboardist is *totally* tasteless. Possibly the worst showoff >> I've ever >> heard who wasn't in a prog band. Check, please! > > Back from my vacation: I agree but "Golden Brown" still is one of > the greatest songs ever recorded, as far as I'm concerned ... Why? Do you swoon that much for tricky time signatures? Random note: Saw "Ray" this weekend. I was a bit cynical about this film going into it, due to the mainstream fawning and the wholly dubious track record of Taylor "Against All Odds" Hackford, but damn...that may be the best musical biopic I've ever seen. Maybe even one of the best biopics, period. Superb. Also saw the HBO-made "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers," which was NOT very good. Very tabloidy, and too Americanized in perspective. And a star who was just Too Damn Tall. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:03:48 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Ragin Cajun weather I just read something which says Peter Holsapple and Susan Cowsill are both homeless, due to the hurricane. (I assume they no longer live together.) Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #214 ********************************