From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #249 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, October 24 2005 Volume 14 : Number 249 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Go4 [Eb ] Gang of Four [Jill Brand ] Re: Go4 [Jeff Norman ] storefront LP ebay [Bret ] Lipogram and the Jooves [Jeff Norman ] reap ["michael wells" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:58:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Go4 Jeff Dwarf wrote: >> Saw a great show on Friday night: the reunited Gang of >> Four. I was excited about finally seeing this band -- I >> expected to see them years ago, circa the oft- >> maligned "Mall" album, but the tour was cancelled. I >> recall some eclectic triple bill planned with Public >> Enemy and...mmm...someone else. I guess it was *too* >> eclectic. > > The Sisters of Mercy. I remember Andrew Eldritch on 120 > Minutes blaming the whole thing on the record company. The > lack of cross-over appeal between himself and the PE > audience never quite occured to him. Ah! Thanks for filling in that tidbit. Even more "eclectic" than I remembered. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:58:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Gang of Four Entertainment was a splendid album. Now I'll have to clean up my vinyl and listen to it while watching game 2 of the World Series. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:25:52 -0500 From: Jeff Norman Subject: Re: Go4 On 10/23/05, Eb wrote: > Saw a great show on Friday night: the reunited Gang of Four. I was > The one song where the group's tenacity slipped a bit was "Hed Send > in the Army." For this tune, a old microwave oven was set up on a > table at the left of the stage, and King gleefully pounded it with a > black electric guitar (later, a bat), going along with the song's > stark beat. I gather that he does something like this at every show, > though I suspect "wasting" a guitar was special because it was the > tour's last night. In any case, the stunt was a bit too theatrical > and didn't work especially well. It was intriguing to watch the oven > gradually collapse and fall apart, but it didn't seem so "rock 'n' > roll" when King knocked the oven to the floor a couple of times and > had to carefully reposition it on the table before resuming his > bashing. It would have been much cooler to stick a live mic in the mic (hey...) and then turn the microwave oven on. Tits. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:43:44 -0500 From: Bret Subject: storefront LP ebay *http://tinyurl.com/dqbql* ** *blah, blah, blah.* ** *its on topic though.* - -- - -- Bret Bolton - -- atdot.com | beers, bikes, and boogers - -- http://www.atdot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:54:28 -0500 From: Jeff Norman Subject: Lipogram and the Jooves - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:11:48 -0400, "Wordsmith" said: > AWADmail Issue 183 > October 22, 2005 > > A Compendium of Feedback on the Words in A.Word.A.Day > and Other Interesting Tidbits about Words and Languages > > > ---------------------------- > > From: James Dignan (grutnessATslingshot.co.nz) > Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--lipogram > Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/lipogram.html > > My girlfriend Alice and I once tried to write a story which used only > the ten most commonly used letters of the alphabet (ETAIONSHRD). > Amazingly, after several attempts, the only style that seemed to work > was "hard-boiled detective" a la Raymond Chandler. A paragraph from > the couple of pages we managed to write on it before giving up will > give you some idea: > > "Thor Hansen's a Dane." said Nate. "He's Stateside to see his sister, > Adrienne - she's in Detroit. She hasn't heard that he's here. That he > is... raises the ante. He ain't no saint - a rat's nearer - and he's > a threat. He's hated here, and Detroit's one hornet's nest he doesn't > need to stir. Adrienne has no idea. And she's inside, too, so there's > no sense in distressin' her." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:44:48 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: reap Rosa Parks, 92 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #249 ********************************