From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #8 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, January 9 2006 Volume 15 : Number 008 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: today's juxtaposed album cover [2fs ] Re: today's juxtaposed album cover [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: better bring a pillow [The Great Quail ] Re: his name is earl - the song is by nick drake [2fs ] robyn audio + video [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: his name is earl - the song is by nick drake [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: today's juxtaposed album cover [2fs ] Re: today's juxtaposed album cover [Jeff Dwarf ] Re:Better bring a pillow [James Dignan ] reap postscript [Eb ] Re: reap [Jason Brown ] Re: reap [Spotted Eagle Ray ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 22:24:16 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: today's juxtaposed album cover On 1/7/06, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > HSatterfld@aol.com wrote: > > Darklight is a "Gothic and Dark Alternative Music > > Community". You can look up CDs there and find info > > and Amazon links for where to purchase them. > > Here's the page for Flesheaters Volume 1, a compilation. > > > > _http://darklight.co.za/album/Flesheaters%2C+Volume+1_ > > (http://darklight.co.za/album/Flesheaters,+Volume+1) > > > > (Either they have a serious software problem or somebody > > has an odd sense of humor.) > > That cover is no doubt far creepier and more ghoulish than > the real one though. Sadly, my mother owns that album. > Because why wouldn't you want to listen to standards sung > by Nat Cole or Tony Bennett when you can hear them crooned > by the wanker from The Faces. C'mon: if Rod Stewart had died after _Never a Dull Moment_, he'd be hailed as one of the best rock singers ever, tragically cut down in his prime. Conversely, if Janis Joplin had lived, I shudder to think what gawdawful Vegas-y crap she would eventually have descended to. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 21:07:10 -0800 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: today's juxtaposed album cover On 07.01.2006, at 18:20, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > That cover is no doubt far creepier and more ghoulish than > the real one though. Sadly, my mother owns that album. > Because why wouldn't you want to listen to standards sung > by Nat Cole or Tony Bennett when you can hear them crooned > by the wanker from The Faces. > For the strange and exotic and, yes, outright weird in album covers and music, try this! Yu-Mex! - - c ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:27:14 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: his name is earl - the song is by nick drake Mr. Lee said the success of "Earl" was not so much a reflection on him as it was an endorsement of an idiosyncratic sensibility that is in short supply on network television. He pointed to a recent episode of the show, which featured on its soundtrack the rarely heard song "Time Has Told Me" by the singer-songwriter Nick Drake, as emblematic of the risks he hoped "Earl" would continue to take in its new time slot. "When you're making a television show on a mainstream network like NBC, it's harder to break the rules, and the fact that we're doing that is an accomplishment," he said. "I mean, has there ever been a show on NBC with a freaking Nick Drake song in it?" _http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/arts/television/08itzk.html_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/arts/television/08itzk.html) 2nd best show on TV - after Arrested Development . . ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:49:24 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Fripp at Microsoft > Here it is - > Sigh. Following in Bowie's footsteps, alas. Well, anyway -- Fripp uses Macintoshes to drive his musical performances, so maybe this is really a missed opportunity by Apple! - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:52:56 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: better bring a pillow > I was wondering what kind of madman woulduntil catching this sentence later > on in the article: Cage was a pupil of one of the 20th century's most > influential composers, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951). Ah, that's it then. I hate to be pedantic (or do I?), but believe me, that's not it. Cage plotted an entirely different course than Schoenberg, and this is not the kind of project that would have interested Schoenberg in the least, even if he started to smoke massive amounts of weed. This is Cage being Cage, with all his sense of humor intact. - --Herr Doktor von Wachtel, Pedant to the Stars ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:22:40 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: his name is earl - the song is by nick drake On 1/8/06, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > Mr. Lee said the success of "Earl" was not so much a reflection on him ... . "I mean, has there ever > been a show on NBC with a freaking Nick Drake song in it?" > > _http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/arts/television/08itzk.html_ Wow - Nick Drake songs on TV? Who ever heard of *that* before? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:11:57 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Fripp at Microsoft The Great Quail wrote: >> Here it is - >> > > Sigh. Following in Bowie's footsteps, alas. Well, anyway -- Fripp uses > Macintoshes to drive his musical performances, so maybe this is > really a > missed opportunity by Apple! Did you mean to say Eno, instead of Bowie? Eb PS Saw "Super Size Me," last night. Wow. Interesting/scary film. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:12:12 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: robyn audio + video http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/search?last_query=bob+dylan&a_submit=1&aw=1& sfor=av&dur=a&fmp3=1&freal=1&fwin=1&fqt=1&call=1&cmus=1&cmov=1&crad=1&coth=1&c tv=1&cnews=1&cspt=1&cfin=1&rpp=10&persist=1&exp=0&query=robyn+hitchcock&adult_ results=&a_eml_search=1&email_type=2 songs & other audio & video incl . 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[The Postal Service and Iron & Wine versions (respectively) of "Such Great Heights," for those of you have missed this particular phenomenon.] "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg "Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat." - Harry S Truman . __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL  Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:07:09 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: today's juxtaposed album cover 2fs wrote: > C'mon: if Rod Stewart had died after _Never a Dull > Moment_, he'd be hailed as one of the best rock singers > ever, tragically cut down in his prime. Perhaps, but he didn't -- he turned into Michael Bolton with an even sillier (for a man his age) haircut. I mean, this is a guy whose best song since _NADM_ is "(Do Ya Think I'm) Sexy?" > Conversely, if Janis Joplin had lived, I shudder to think > what gawdawful Vegas-y crap she would eventually have > descended to. I'm not a huge Janis Joplin fan, but really, who the hell knows what she would have done. All anyone can is speculate. Maybe she ends up being the one to record "We Built This City," saving Grace Slick's credibility in just the nick of time. Maybe she puts out two more albums, meets her own personal Fred "Sonic" Smith and mostly retires to the family life for 20 years before reassuming her career in the early 90s, keeps Kurt Cobain from marrying Courtney Love (or at least gets him a better divorce attorney that that rifle), and becomes the female Neil Young. "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg "Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat." - Harry S Truman . __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL  Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:58:59 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: today's juxtaposed album cover On 1/8/06, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > 2fs wrote: > > C'mon: if Rod Stewart had died after _Never a Dull > > Moment_, he'd be hailed as one of the best rock singers > > ever, tragically cut down in his prime. > > Perhaps, but he didn't -- he turned into Michael Bolton > with an even sillier (for a man his age) haircut. I mean, > this is a guy whose best song since _NADM_ is "(Do Ya Think > I'm) Sexy?" Oh god - I wouldn't want to defend Stewart's latterday career (although I think "Hot Legs" is better than that song...). I just meant to point out that, in fact, he had six or seven good years in his career. > > Conversely, if Janis Joplin had lived, I shudder to think > > what gawdawful Vegas-y crap she would eventually have > > descended to. > > I'm not a huge Janis Joplin fan, but really, who the hell > knows what she would have done. Yeah - I was just indulging in gratuitous Joplin-bashing, since I've always felt she was absurdly overrated, and only had what critical reputation she had for romantically dying around the same time as (the also overrrated, but at least somewhat talented) Jim Morrison and (the also overrated, but only because he wasn't Jesus) Jimi Hendrix. > in the early 90s, keeps Kurt Cobain from marrying Courtney > Love (or at least gets him a better divorce attorney that > that rifle), Okay, I'm also not going to go out of my way to defend Courtney Love - but the idea that she had Cobain killed, rather than Kurt saving anyone who wanted him dead the trouble, is just complete bullshit. C'mon: the guy was blatantly depressive and suicidal, and the whole "Courtney did it" crap transparently motivated by Yoko-Syndrome-suffering misogyny. (See also: Elliott Smith, although at least there the mode of death is bizarre enough to at least crack open the door to an alternative theory.) ps: Your comment is oblique, but someone a few months ago made a similar offhand remark, which I don't think I did comment on - apparently, I was saving it up for later ;-) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:34:07 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: today's juxtaposed album cover 2fs wrote: > Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > in the early 90s, keeps Kurt Cobain from marrying > > Courtney Love (or at least gets him a better divorce > > attorney that that rifle), > > Okay, I'm also not going to go out of my way to defend > Courtney Love - but the idea that she had Cobain killed, > rather than Kurt saving anyone who wanted him dead the > trouble, is just complete bullshit. You're misreading, or maybe I unclear. Absolutely, Kurt killed himself and the idea that Courtney had him whacked is utterly preposterous. I meant that Kurt "hired" the rifle to end his marriage (and his life with it) instead of hiring the better divorce attorney. Which is still unfair to Courtney in it's own way -- he had far more problems than just being married to her --but not anywhere close to in league as accusing her or having him whacked or even saying that he really wrote all the songs on _Live Through This_ (of course, if he had, maybe "Violet" wouldn't be the only good song). > C'mon: the guy was blatantly depressive and suicidal, and > the whole "Courtney did it" crap transparently motivated by > Yoko-Syndrome-suffering misogyny. (See also: Elliott > Smith, although at least there the mode of death is bizarre > enough to at least crack open the door to an alternative > theory.) > > ps: Your comment is oblique, but someone a few months ago > made a similar offhand remark, which I don't think I did > comment on - apparently, I was saving it up for later ;-) Well, thanks a fucking lot for that!!! :) "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg "Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat." - Harry S Truman . __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL  Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:29:06 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re:Better bring a pillow > > Second Chord Sounds in 639-Year Long Concert > > > > > > > > The abandoned Buchardi church in Halberstadt, eastern Germany, is the venue > > for a mind-boggling 639-year long performance of a piece of music by US > > experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992). [more at > > http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1847303,00.html ] > >Oh, I dunno - I think it's kind of cool: I wonder what it would be >like for a note to be sounding continuously for years, literally? >(They're using weights to hold down the keys of the organ. Of course, >some punk kid will come in and play a wrong note by moving the weights >or something...Then again, Cage might have welcomed that.) > >It'd be interesting if the piece were more automated...and >distributed. And if the general public didn't know about it. So, >you're sitting down for lunch one day in a restaurant in Des Moines, >Iowa, and suddenly the organ in the church across the street sounds a >chord...and it just keeps going. You forget about it entirely...until >twenty years later, you're wandering down the street in Belgrade, and >a different organ sounds a different chord. Suddenly, you remember... meh. Is it live streaming anywhere, or do we have to wait for the recording to be officially released in 2640? 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, 8 Jan 2006 16:15:37 -0800 From: Eb Subject: reap postscript http://www.goodset.com/barry-cowsill/memorial/index.php You know, considering what a minor band the Cowsills were -- and how LONG ago they were popular -- 634 "tributes" within four days (more, by the time YOU check the link?) is a pretty impressive tally. Meanwhile, I've found that I can't bear to let go of "The Simpsons Sing the Blues" and "The Simpsons' Yellow Album." Oh, am I ashamed. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:34:34 -0800 From: Jason Brown Subject: Re: reap On 1/6/06, Tom Clark wrote: > On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Michael Wells wrote: > > > Lou Rawls, 72 > > His work with Gang of Four was outstanding. He'll be missed. And yet you can still hear his influence in bands like Franz Ferdinand today. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 21:19:26 -0800 From: Spotted Eagle Ray Subject: Re: reap On 1/6/06, Jason Brown wrote: > > On 1/6/06, Tom Clark wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Michael Wells wrote: > > > > > Lou Rawls, 72 > > > > His work with Gang of Four was outstanding. He'll be missed. > > And yet you can still hear his influence in bands like Franz Ferdinand > today. > Heavy meta. Meta Gear Solid. Meta interesting dwarf, and I told him a story. Meta cetera and so forth... - -Rx ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #8 ******************************