From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #49 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, February 28 2006 Volume 15 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- REAP [FSThomas ] Re: "compact cassettes", my arse [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: "compact cassettes", my arse [] RE: I see redundant "reaps" a-comin'.... ["Bachman, Michael" ] Yet Another REAP [Tom Clark ] Re: Yet Another REAP [Eb ] Re: Yet Another REAP [2fs ] RE: Yet Another REAP ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Yet Another REAP ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: Yet Another TAPE ["Brian Nupp" ] Aha! (99% David Byrne/Apple Content) [Tom Clark ] reap ["michael wells" ] Re: Dinosaur, Jr ["randalljr" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:40:03 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: REAP Andreas Katsulas, actor best known as G'kar on Babylon 5, died February 13 at the age of 59. http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_053041339.html Actor Andreas Katsulas, 59, Dies (AP) LOS ANGELES Veteran character actor Andreas Katsulas has died. His agent says Katsulas, who had been undergoing chemotherapy treatments for lung cancer, died in his Los Angeles home February 13th. Katsulas was immortalized as imposing red-eyed alien ambassador G'Kar on television's "Babylon Five" and a one-armed murderer in the 1993 film "The Fugitive." He appeared in small roles in a handful of films before landing the part of a Greek immigrant in 1982's "King of America" and then a regular role that same year in the soap opera "Guiding Light." Katsulas also appeared as Commander Tomalak in several episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." He also appeared on such T-V shows as "NYPD Blue," "Diagnosis Murder" and "Murder, She Wrote." Katsulas was 59. - -- FS Thomas | Interactive Developer | fsthomas-at-ochremedia.com 404.758.8616 (home/office) | 404.274.1632 (mobile) | ferraatu (AIM) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:33:16 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: "compact cassettes", my arse - -- bayard is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Februar 2006 19:22:20 -0800 regarding "compact cassettes", my arse: > I am cleaning up and organizing all my stuff and am seriously considering > ridding myself of my cassette tapes (there are maybe 500 or so.) Have > any of you done this? Have you regretted it? They take up a lot of > space! Well, I don't have quite as many, maybe about 300. I'm holding on to them, because there are some recordings that I haven't been able to upgrade to another medium. Mostly live shows. I've got them in drawers that are *just* the right size for tapes, so they don't take up much space. I honestly wouldn't know what to use those drawers for otherwise. Socks, possibly. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:38:20 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: REAP - -- FSThomas is rumored to have mumbled on 27. Februar 2006 00:40:03 -0500 regarding REAP: > Actor Andreas Katsulas, 59, Dies > > (AP) LOS ANGELES Veteran character actor Andreas Katsulas has died. > > His agent says Katsulas, who had been undergoing chemotherapy treatments > for lung cancer, died in his Los Angeles home February 13th. On the DVD commentaries to B5 his fellow actors talk about his smoking during each break ... oh, well. I loved him as G'Kar! - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:04:20 +0000 From: Subject: Re: "compact cassettes", my arse Quoting Sebastian Hagedorn : > -- bayard is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Februar > 2006 19:22:20 -0800 regarding "compact cassettes", my arse: > > > I am cleaning up and organizing all my stuff and am seriously considering > > ridding myself of my cassette tapes (there are maybe 500 or so.) Have > > any of you done this? Have you regretted it? They take up a lot of > > space! I've got 1600 of the little monsters... and I'm converting to CD as fast as I can, but I would NOT recommend geting rid of them... Unless you want to send them to me, of course! Good home guaranteed... c* - -------------------------------------------------------------- Sent with "Me-Mail", Boltblue's FREE mobile messaging service. http://www.boltblue.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:07:42 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: I see redundant "reaps" a-comin'.... >> Also, Darren "Kolchak" McGavin. Steve T: >I'm old enough to remember seeing the original Night Stalker as a kid. You can buy the original Night Stalker and Night Strangler made for television movies on a single DVD. Also available in a box set is the short series which started in the Fall of 1974 but never saw a season 2. Chris Carter has stated many times that the Night Stalker was a major influence on his creation of The X-Files. Darren McGavin also appeared on a few epsiodes of The X-Files. Michael B. NP Wire - 154 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:15:54 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: "compact cassettes", my arse >I am cleaning up and organizing all my stuff and am seriously considering >ridding myself of my cassette tapes (there are maybe 500 or so.) Have any >of you done this? Have you regretted it? They take up a lot of space! >I have two "walkmans" as well... I don't suppose the Smithsonian will >want this stuff... There are plenty of statues that are in dire need of a walkman. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:29:14 -0600 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: I see redundant "reaps" a-comin'.... Two more from this weekend: Authors Frederick Busch and Octavia E. Butler. Sumi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:37:55 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: I see redundant "reaps" a-comin'.... On 2/25/06, Steve Talkowski wrote: > > > Don Knotts, 81 > > How sad. He was definitely an original and funny fellah. Loved him > in Mad, Mad, Mad, World. He was from West Virginia. I'm required to point that out. In the back of our State History textbooks was a small section on "important modern day West Virginians", featuring photos of Knotts, Chuck Yeager, and of course Joyce DeWitt. Maybe Jerry West. And as a representative of the state in Hollywood, he never embarrassed us by dating Ben Affleck or anything - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:21:45 -0800 From: "randalljr" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #47 From: > Just got back from the last night of my segment of the Hitchcock/Minus 5 > tour. A really cool night overall. We planned to get a table at the Key > Club and have dinner there, only to find you couldn't even see the stage > from our seats. We decided to eat elsewhere and stand in the general floor > room for the show. We thought the Thai place nextdoor looked like it was > worth a try, and we wound up getting seated next to most of the members of > the Minus 5. The tables were a bit close together, and Peter Buck wound up > moving things around a bit, telling my friend Greg that "anyone wearing a > Soft Boys shirt is welcome to sit here." Dinner was great, and we held off > from doing the whole fan-geek ackward gawking bit. Still, as they were > getting ready to leave, Scott stopped to ask, "Weren't you guys there last > night?", and they stayed and talked a couple of minutes. Really, really > nice guys. Peter recommends ordering the Hidden Treasure if we go back > again. Being a fan geek is nothing to be ashamed of, hey, I once gushed about sitting at a table with Robyn himself : ) Now if only I could talk that way about Neil, Geddy, and Alex........ My new apartment is very close to the Crocodile Cafe. Who's Coming For Dinner? The usual suspects like Jeme and Eddie will show themselves, and I could try and rouse ex-girl friend Debora (who now has a rich boy friend, heh) to show up. Anyways, those who come up from Portland have a futon, and a cat free area within shouting distance of the show. Vince ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:29:20 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Yet Another REAP Dennis Weaver, 81 http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060227/D8G1JQA80.html It's a bad time to be an actor in your 80's apparently. - -tc [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:39:43 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Yet Another REAP Tom Clark wrote: > Dennis Weaver, 81 > http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060227/D8G1JQA80.html > > It's a bad time to be an actor in your 80's apparently. It would be nice if some other old TV actor dies shortly, because otherwise all those morons who hysterically babble about "death in three's" every time two celebrities (Knotts, McGavin) die simultaneously are going to go hogwild. My Southern-bred father had a special fondness for both Knotts and Weaver...he loved those down-to-earth, good-ol'-boy type personalities. Jeez, if I worry about him "cursing" such actors, who should be next? Tennessee Ernie Ford is already dead. Hm...perhaps Huell Howser is due to suffer a fatal heart attack during one of his weightlifting sessions. (I guess that name won't be familiar to many folks...look him up, if curious.) I still have...umm...199 albums on retail cassettes and (worse) 98 on *homemade* tapes. But what bugs me the most is that I have all these Maxell/TDK one-album-per-side, 90-minute tapes, where one or both sides are no longer needed because I later upgraded the album to CD. But I can't just toss the tapes, because they *also* have all kinds of coveted B-sides and rarities taped in the extra minutes at the end. Phooey. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:57:05 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Yet Another REAP On 2/27/06, Eb wrote: > Tom Clark wrote: > > Dennis Weaver, 81 > > http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060227/D8G1JQA80.html > > > > It's a bad time to be an actor in your 80's apparently. > > It would be nice if some other old TV actor dies shortly, because > otherwise all those morons who hysterically babble about "death in > three's" every time two celebrities (Knotts, McGavin) die > simultaneously are going to go hogwild. Man, Abe Vigoda really had better watch his back. > I still have...umm...199 albums on retail cassettes and (worse) 98 on > *homemade* tapes. But what bugs me the most is that I have all these > Maxell/TDK one-album-per-side, 90-minute tapes, where one or both > sides are no longer needed because I later upgraded the album to CD. > But I can't just toss the tapes, because they *also* have all kinds > of coveted B-sides and rarities taped in the extra minutes at the > end. Phooey. I have like 600 cassettes floating around - I haven't even bothered to figure out how many are obsoleted by CD upgrade (a fair number, I think). I basically don't listen to them - most probably aren't all that worth listening to. But I suppose if you were really dedicated, you could always go through and digitize the key albums and tracks, and then toss the rest. But who's got the time? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:52:29 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Yet Another REAP - -- >I still have...umm...199 albums on retail cassettes and (worse) 98 on >*homemade* tapes. But what bugs me the most is that I have all these >Maxell/TDK one-album-per-side, 90-minute tapes, where one or both >sides are no longer needed because I later upgraded the album to CD. >But I can't just toss the tapes, because they *also* have all kinds >of coveted B-sides and rarities taped in the extra minutes at the >end. Phooey. I have a bunch of homemade tapes as well, but they are from a Sunday night radio program I used to record from 1988-90. That program introduced me to The Go-Betweens, Wire, Pixies, Throwing Muses, and a host of others. I still listen to them once in a while. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:10:43 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Dinosaur, Jr World tour starts tonight in Japan. San Francisco shows are 4/19 & 4/20 at GAMH. I'll be the guy all freaked out on acid. Well, one of them anyhow. http://www.dinosaurjr.com/home.tour.htm - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:57:05 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Yet Another REAP On 2/27/06, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > -- > >I still have...umm...199 albums on retail cassettes and (worse) 98 on > >*homemade* tapes. But what bugs me the most is that I have all these > >Maxell/TDK one-album-per-side, 90-minute tapes, where one or both > >sides are no longer needed because I later upgraded the album to CD. > >But I can't just toss the tapes, because they *also* have all kinds > >of coveted B-sides and rarities taped in the extra minutes at the > >end. Phooey. > > I have a bunch of homemade tapes as well, but they are from a Sunday night > radio program I used to record from 1988-90. That program introduced me > to The Go-Betweens, Wire, Pixies, Throwing Muses, and a host of others. > I still listen to them once in a while. Obviously I retained those Smylonylon tapes. I actually did digitize a few cassettes of stuff that wasn't on CD when I did the same with my vinyl several years back (David Byrne's Knee Plays comes to mind). I pretty much tossed the bulk of my stuff over the past few years, including a huge raft of lovingly assembled mix tapes... I held onto them for road trips until my car stereo died. I have a few plastic cases with some tapes left... a few rarities, lots of demo tapes from band that never got signed or whatever, some mixes given to me by friends, some sound effects tapes... but not much anymore. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:29:20 -0500 From: "Brian Nupp" Subject: Re: Yet Another TAPE >On 2/27/06, Bachman, Michael >wrote: >> >> -- >> >I still have...umm...199 albums on retail cassettes and (worse) 98 >on >> >*homemade* tapes. But what bugs me the most is that I have all >these >> >Maxell/TDK one-album-per-side, 90-minute tapes, where one or both >> >sides are no longer needed because I later upgraded the album to >CD. >> >But I can't just toss the tapes, because they *also* have all >kinds >> >of coveted B-sides and rarities taped in the extra minutes at the >> >end. Phooey. >> >> I have a bunch of homemade tapes as well, but they are from a >Sunday night >> radio program I used to record from 1988-90. That program >introduced me >> to The Go-Betweens, Wire, Pixies, Throwing Muses, and a host of >others. >> I still listen to them once in a while. I'm keeping my tapes in case Lake Erie ever floods and I need to make a raft like Tom Hanks does in Cast Away. - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:41:11 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Aha! (99% David Byrne/Apple Content) Quickly hopped over to David Byrne's journal site today and voila - he talks about visiting Apple to meet with Jonathan ("Johnny, please") Ive last month. So it was David I saw that day - cool! http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2006/01/1506_san_franci.html Heading off to the RH-5 show... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:56:47 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: reap This past week pianist Anthony Burger died at 44. While many might not know his name, he was known as a 'musician's musician' in Gospel and Country circles and his arrangements pop up more places than you might think. He was also the pianist for all of the Gaither Homecoming videos and concerts, from where he gained some small publicity. There's a bit more at www.anthonyburger.com Michael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:34:58 -0800 From: "randalljr" Subject: Re: Dinosaur, Jr From: "Tom Clark" : Dinosaur, Jr > World tour starts tonight in Japan. San Francisco shows are 4/19 & 4/20 > at GAMH. I'll be the guy all freaked out on acid. Well, one of them > anyhow. No Seattle show? Damn. Saw Dinosaur Jr. way back when in Minneapolis, and sure would like to see them again. My last acid trip was so good that I haven't taken any since, and it's been, 10 years? wee-doggie. Don't want to ruin a good memory, Vince ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #49 *******************************