From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #281 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, December 4 2005 Volume 14 : Number 281 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #280 [James Dignan ] Re: monkey-cheese [James Dignan ] Re: check out the monkey [Eb ] Retro [Eb ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #279 [Michael R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 01:49:05 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #280 >james, are kiwi maps and globes printed with the south on top? just >curious. funnily enough, some are - but only special souvenir ones. You know the sort of thing. I bet everywhere has the sort of map with "Our State" taking up a huge area and surrounding ones disparaged in as many ways as possible. In NZ, those are often upside-down maps with NZ top centre with the much smaller island of Australia nearby. 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: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 02:00:19 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: monkey-cheese >Subject: Re: Did somebody ring the cheese alarm? > >I went to the Christmas market in Central Belfast today and fortunately >had a local with me to explain the cheeses. My god, so many! I am a bit >shy about the really stinky ones but there were some things that were, >well, astonishing! Names? I don't know. But every color of the rainbow, >all of them made in Ireland and even a Guiness cheese. Then I had some >gorgeous baked feta thing for dinner. I guess everywhere has good local cheeses, but yes, one thing that both the UK and Ireland do well is cheese. Here, Kapiti's OK, but there's nothing quite like a good Whitestone. I must admit that I miss a good Caerphilly, though... it doesn't travel well, so any that gets sent here from the UK tastes like a salt-lick. As for movies, the best one I've seen recently is The Constant Gardener. It's based on a Le Carre, so its one of those thrillers that are slow-moving enough to almost defy the use of the term - industro-political intrigue rather than his usual spy-work. Twisty and well-crafted, but without making you think "hmm... that's well-crafted", if you now what I mean. And Africa is as jaw-dropping as ever. 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: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 10:52:16 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: check out the monkey FSThomas wrote: >> ...I can find no way to get myself excited about this film. It's >> hard enough to even get *interested*. I know it's a personal, >> heartfelt project for Jackson and all, but it's like David Lean >> finishing "Lawrence of Arabia" and following it with >> "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman." Blecch. Conserve popcorn, and >> just say no to remakes. > > If it's any consolation, the first review is really positive: > > http://tinyurl.com/ag8h2 Cheesy writing. Sounds like a Billy Bush or Jon Kelly report put on paper. Hey, I know there's an Eels fanatic or two here: Seems like the backing track of MC Honky's "What a Bringdown" sounds just like some Eels song. Which one? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 13:31:17 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Retro I just pulled out my copy of Oh-OK's "Furthermore What" EP (featuring Michael Stipe's sister, Matthew Sweet, the girl from Magnapop, etc.) for the first time in awhile. I bought it for cheap (99 cents, I think) at Amoeba a few years ago. Thought it was an exciting find, at the time. When I got the record home, I figured out why this collectable rarity was only 99 cents: It's warped. The warp only ruins the first song of side one, but that's enough. I squashed it on my record shelf for awhile, hoping it might flatten enough to be playable. But no. About three inches along the circumference are the big problem. A gentle curve which makes the needle hop at the beginning of side one. Any suggestions for a way to flatten this? Could I maybe just hold a lighter under that area for a bit, and then find two planes to smash the record between? I believe I've tried putting a record in the oven twice, and ruined it both times. Go Bruins. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:45:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #279 On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, fegmaniax-digest wrote: > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:15:34 -0500 > From: "Stewart C. Russell" > Subject: Re: Smells like mean induction criteria > I can't see any musical link between the two. Franz is sucky > post-new-romantic blather, NMH isn't. > Mind you, Alex likes Ivor Cutler*, so he can't be all bad. > cheers, > Stewart > *: whom I hear is _very_ poorly indeed. * Really bad news, Stewart. Did you see the BBC4 documentary and concert last year? I stupidly ran out of tape in the middle, so I have got 2 chunks with a big gap in between. > Talking of being late, I listened to The Delgados' "The Great Eastern" > for the first time today. Only 5 years after everyone else. It's really > good. I'll give it a listen. Do you know "Walking in the belly of the whale" by Michael Chapman? Or "Shipbuilding" by Elvis? > > ps: Happy St Andrew's! Get pished noo! Oh, right. Slainte, everybody. - - Mike Godwin n.p. Fleetwood Mac 'Yesterday's Gone' PS Is anyone going to this Neil Innes so-called "Bonzos" bash in London? I don't think I could stand it after missing Viv's gig at the ULU in 1991(?). And I could have gone so easily, as I was working in Russell Square at the time! Why didn't he tell me he was planning to drop dead? ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #281 ********************************