From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #59 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, March 14 2006 Volume 15 : Number 059 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #58 [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: James Dignan exhibition [Eb ] RE: Re: Name that Earworm ["matt sewell" ] RE: Re: Name that Earworm [Christopher Gross ] RE: Re: Name that Earworm ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Name that Earworm [Tom Clark ] reap [Eb ] REAP? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: James Dignan exhibition [The Great Quail ] Re: REAP? ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] reap: Chef [Eb ] Re: REAP? [Eb ] Re: reap: Chef [Tom Clark ] RE: reap: Chef ["Bachman, Michael" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 02:05:07 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #58 Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > fegmaniax-digest Sunday, March 12 2006 Volume 15 : Number 058 > > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:04:36 +1300 > From: James Dignan > Subject: James Dignan exhibition > Dear all, > I would like to announce the opening of my third solo art exhibition, > "Another Day on Earth", which is at the Moray Gallery, Princes > Street, Dunedin, from March 18th - 30th. > The exhibition features some 27 new paintings by yours truly. > An opening preview is being held on Saturday 18th, from 11 am- 1 pm, > which is open to any interested people. I realise that most of you > are far enough from Dunedin that you're unlikely to be able to get to > it, but I'd be delighted (and amazed) if you could turn up, and I > know (hope?) you'd want to know about it even if you cannot (with any > luck most of the pictures in it will be on my website in a couple of > days anyway). > James Dignan * I probably won't be able to make it, James - sorry about that. * Any chance that you could get to one of these? Due to fantastic response from ageing "musos" from Liverpool, Tooting, Frome and Heerjansdam, I am extending my "We're going to party like it's 19seventy9" gig for two days of peace, love and understanding. April 30th at the Cross Keys, Midford Road, Bath (quiet day) and 1st May at the Walcot Palais, Porter Butt, London Road, Bath (noisy day). Don't confuse the P.Butt with the Porter, which is an offshoot of Moles Club. [We don't play at Moles any more, do we, precious, since they insisted on only booking bands through agencies...] - - Mike Godwin PS On the subject of Frome, is anyone else going to see the Edgar Broughton Band on Friday 17th March? PPS Matt, how about it? And Rog says could you bring your poet pal as well? n.p. Out Demons Out ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:10:21 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: James Dignan exhibition James Dignan wrote: > The exhibition features some 27 new paintings by yours truly. Got any photos of them posted on your website? Random film note: I saw "House of 1000 Corpses" a day or so ago. Wow. I didn't think there could be anything worse than Rob Zombie's *music* -- now I know better. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:13:12 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: RE: Re: Name that Earworm > > The death of old Slobo> > > > Say what you will of his petty atrocities, but the man had some *serious*> hair. The best despotic coif in recent history, if I'm any judge. About the> only rival currently out there is Mel Kiper Jr., currently in overdrive mode> on ESPN for the upcoming NFL draft. I saw him yesterday fulminating about> tight end prospects, and the dome had - improbable as it may seem - nearly> doubled in volume from last year. It's truly taken on a life of its own. Best hair never brought to trial still has got to be Radovan Karadzic - what is it with mass murder and lustrous, healthy-looking hair? Cheers Matt _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:53:53 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: RE: Re: Name that Earworm On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, matt sewell wrote: > Best hair never brought to trial still has got to be Radovan Karadzic - what > is it with mass murder and lustrous, healthy-looking hair? Interesting point. Stalin had a fine coiffure, as did Pol Pot, and while Hitler's hair was thin and lank, he was known for it drooping onto his face. Osama bin Laden keeps his hair covered, but he doesn't seem to be bald, and of course he has one fine beard. Himmler was in the middle, with a relatively full head of undistinguished hair, as were Franco and Pinochet (at least during their classic periods), Saddam Hussein, and Idi Amin. Mao Zedong was more than half bald, but what hair he had swept out majesticly, at least in his official portrait. As for true baldies, I'm hard pressed to think of any besides Lenin and Mussolini. There's an old saying that Russia/the USSR alternates between bald reformers and hairy tyrants, but does this really hold up? - -Lenin: bald, really closer to a tyrant but established a new system and thus could also be considered a reformer - -Stalin: hairy tyrant - -Khrushchev: bald reformer - -Brezhnev: hairy, undo-er of reforms though not a Stalinesque tyrant - -Andropov: bald, sort of a reformer - -Chernenko: hairy, tried to return to Brezhnevism - -Gorbachev: bald reformer - -Yeltsin: hairy, more of a buffoon than a tyrant - -Putin: see Lenin Meanwhile, where does all this put the Great Quail? - --Chris np: Dropkick Murphys, Sing Loud Sing Proud ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:25:48 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Re: Name that Earworm On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, matt sewell wrote: >> Best hair never brought to trial still has got to be Radovan Karadzic - what >> is it with mass murder and lustrous, healthy-looking hair? Chris came back with: >Interesting point. Stalin had a fine coiffure, as did Pol Pot, and while >Hitler's hair was thin and lank, he was known for it drooping onto his >face. Osama bin Laden keeps his hair covered, but he doesn't seem to be >bald, and of course he has one fine beard. Himmler was in the middle, >with a relatively full head of undistinguished hair, as were Franco and >Pinochet (at least during their classic periods), Saddam Hussein, and Idi >Amin. Mao Zedong was more than half bald, but what hair he had swept out >majesticly, at least in his official portrait. As for true baldies, I'm >hard pressed to think of any besides Lenin and Mussolini. >There's an old saying that Russia/the USSR alternates between bald >reformers and hairy tyrants, but does this really hold up? - -Lenin: bald, really closer to a tyrant but established a new system and thus could also be considered a reformer - -Stalin: hairy tyrant - -Khrushchev: bald reformer - -Brezhnev: hairy, undo-er of reforms though not a Stalinesque tyrant - -Andropov: bald, sort of a reformer - -Chernenko: hairy, tried to return to Brezhnevism - -Gorbachev: bald reformer - -Yeltsin: hairy, more of a buffoon than a tyrant - -Putin: see Lenin Where does my favorite name from the USSR past fit in, Beschmertnik? Not sure of the spelling on that one or what slot he had, but he sure had a great name! Michael B. NP Hank Mobley - Hi Voltage ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:06:39 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: RE: Re: Name that Earworm On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Bachman, Michael wrote: > Where does my favorite name from the USSR past fit in, Beschmertnik? > Not sure of the spelling on that one or what slot he had, but he sure > had a great name! Ah, yes, one of my personal faves, good old Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bessmertnykh. He was one of the last Foreign Ministers of the USSR before it dissolved. (IIRC, he stayed neutral during the attempted coup of 1991, so when Gorbachev returned he replaced Bessmertnykh with a guy who had openly opposed it.) I don't recall his hair being anything special, but he certainly he has a great name. Bessmertnykh is clearly derived from bez, "without," and smert', "death." So his name means "without death," or "undead." The man is a vampire! Or at least descended from vampires - -- a better translation of his name would be "Alexander, son of Alexander, of the Undead." Speaking of which, has anyone seen "Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor)" yet? I had a pass to an advance screening a couple of weeks ago, but due to a series of annoying circumstances (half of them not my fault), I missed it. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:12:52 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Name that Earworm On Mar 13, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, matt sewell wrote: > >> Best hair never brought to trial still has got to be Radovan >> Karadzic - what >> is it with mass murder and lustrous, healthy-looking hair? > > Interesting point. Stalin had a fine coiffure, as did Pol Pot, and > while > Hitler's hair was thin and lank, he was known for it drooping onto his > face. Osama bin Laden keeps his hair covered, but he doesn't seem > to be > bald, and of course he has one fine beard. Himmler was in the middle, > with a relatively full head of undistinguished hair, as were Franco > and > Pinochet (at least during their classic periods), Saddam Hussein, > and Idi > Amin. Mao Zedong was more than half bald, but what hair he had > swept out > majesticly, at least in his official portrait. As for true > baldies, I'm > hard pressed to think of any besides Lenin and Mussolini. How can we overlook Kim Jong Il? Dudes got the pompadour to end all pompadours! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:19:14 -0800 From: Eb Subject: reap Actress Maureen Stapleton Dies at 80 Associated Press LENOX, Mass. - Maureen Stapleton, the Oscar-winning character actress whose subtle vulnerability and down-to-earth toughness earned her dramatic and comedic roles on stage, screen, and television, died Monday. She was 80. Stapleton, a longtime smoker who had been living in Lenox, died from chronic pulmonary disease, said her son, Daniel Allentuck. Stapleton, whose unremarkable, matronly appearance belied her star personality and talent, won an Academy Award in 1981 for her supporting role as anarchist-writer Emma Goldman in Warren Beatty's "Reds," about a left-wing American journalist who journeys to Russia to cover the Bolshevik Revolution. To prepare for the role, Stapleton said she tried reading Goldman's autobiography, but soon chucked it out of boredom. "There are many roads to good acting," Stapleton, known for her straightforwardness, said in her 1995 autobiography, "Hell of a Life." "I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake." Stapleton was nominated several times for a supporting actress Oscar, including for her first film role in 1958's "Lonelyhearts"; "Airport" in 1970; and Woody Allen's "Interiors" in 1978. Her other film credits include the 1963 musical "Bye Bye Birdie" opposite Ann-Margret and Dick Van Dyke, "Johnny Dangerously," "Cocoon," "The Money Pit" and "Addicted to Love." In television, she earned an Emmy for "Among the Paths to Eden" in 1967. She was nominated for "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom" in 1975; "The Gathering" in 1977; and "Miss Rose White" in 1992. [clip] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:39:09 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: REAP? Chef? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:17:52 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: James Dignan exhibition > Random film note: I saw "House of 1000 Corpses" a day or so ago. Wow. > I didn't think there could be anything worse than Rob Zombie's > *music* -- now I know better. Oh Eb, you are breaking my heart.... - --Q ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:56:43 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: REAP? Huh. It would be cool if this were a stunt, but it probably isn't. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:58:30 -0800 From: Eb Subject: reap: Chef Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park' By ERIN CARLSON, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - Isaac Hayes has quit "South Park," where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion. Hayes, who has played the ladies' man/school cook in the animated Comedy Central satire since 1997, said in a statement Monday that he feels a line has been crossed. "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said. "Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored," he continued. "As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices." "South Park" co-creator Matt Stone responded sharply in an interview with The Associated Press Monday, saying, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology... He has no problem - and he's cashed plenty of checks - with our show making fun of Christians." Last November, "South Park" targeted the Church of Scientology and its celebrity followers, including actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, in a top-rated episode called "Trapped in the Closet." In the episode, Stan, one of the show's four mischievous fourth graders, is hailed as a reluctant savior by Scientology leaders, while a cartoon Cruise locks himself in a closet and won't come out. Stone told The AP he and co-creator Trey Parker "never heard a peep out of Isaac in any way until we did Scientology. He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:59:47 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: REAP? > Chef? hayes_x.htm> Aw, crap. If only I had delayed my post a few more seconds! Redundantly, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:21:11 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: reap: Chef On Mar 13, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Eb wrote: > Stone told The AP he and co-creator Trey Parker "never heard a peep > out > of Isaac in any way until we did Scientology. He wants a different > standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where > intolerance and bigotry begin." Amazingly articulate! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:49:59 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: reap: Chef - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Tom Clark Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:21 PM To: fgz Subject: Re: reap: Chef On Mar 13, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Eb wrote: > Stone told The AP he and co-creator Trey Parker "never heard a peep > out of Isaac in any way until we did Scientology. He wants a different > standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where > intolerance and bigotry begin." A lot of that going around these days. Michael B. NP Tres Chicas - Sweetwater (another Yep Roc act) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #59 *******************************