From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #72 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, March 31 2006 Volume 15 : Number 072 Today's Subjects: ----------------- My name is "Eb": I don't push the envelope - I lick it [2fs ] Re: My name is "Eb": I don't push the envelope - I lick it [Christopher G] Re: Robyn's This Is The BBC [Tom Clark ] Re: Now this is grotesque.... ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: Now this is grotesque.... [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Now this is grotesque.... [2fs ] Bob [FSThomas ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #71 [James Dignan ] selling some CDs [Dolph Chaney ] Whether you give a damn about her music or not, this is pretty tragic [Eb] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:27:21 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: My name is "Eb": I don't push the envelope - I lick it On 3/30/06, Hurricane Jesus wrote: > from : > > "Miller's other commentary, with superb cinematographer Adam Kimmel, is > also illuminating (and with less celebrity logrolling), and it provides > further opportunity to admire the expert cutting of editor Christopher > Tellefsen." > > this marks the second time i've seen the phrase "log-rolling". is a > groundswell forming? while i gather that it's pejorative, i've still no > idea what it's supposed to mean in this context. but if the fegs are in on > the ground floor, i say that it must be the cat's meow. It's kind of an odd phrase - I mean, I think of "logrolling," and I think of crazed lumberjacks trying to stay standing as they roll logs in a river. I guess the context (essentially, mutual asskissery) is that the logs sorta mesh together like gears? so each sorta powers the other's motion? Wouldn't seem the most obvious image for that idea - but apparently it's caught on (its cousin "blogrolling" is helping, I think). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:47:05 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": I don't push the envelope - I lick it On 3/30/06, 2fs wrote: > > > It's kind of an odd phrase - I mean, I think of "logrolling," and I > think of crazed lumberjacks trying to stay standing as they roll logs > in a river. I guess the context (essentially, mutual asskissery) is > that the logs sorta mesh together like gears? so each sorta powers the > other's motion? Wouldn't seem the most obvious image for that idea - > but apparently it's caught on (its cousin "blogrolling" is helping, I > think). A phrase with a similar connotation, "brownnosing", suggests an entirely different kind log is being rolled, but even moreso than in the example above, I'm at a loss to explain the mechanics of how that would work... - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:48:52 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Now this is grotesque.... The songs on the upcoming DEF LEPPARD album: [paste] 10538 Overture (originally recorded by Electric Light Orchestra in 1972) 20th Century Boy (originally recorded by T.Rex in 1973) Dont Believe A Word (originally recorded by Thin Lizzy in 1976) Drive-In Saturday (originally recorded by David Bowie in 1973) Hanging On The Telephone (originally recorded by The Nerves in 1977, and Blondie in 1978) Hes Gonna Step On You Again (originally recorded by John Kongos in 1971) Hell Raiser (originally recorded by Sweet in 1973) Little Bit Of Love (originally recorded by Free in 1972) No Matter What (originally recorded by Badfinger in 1970) Rock On (originally recorded by David Essex in 1973) Stay With Me (originally recorded by Faces in 1971) Street Life (originally recorded by Roxy Music in 1973) The Golden Age Of Rock & Roll (originally recorded by Mott the Hoople in 1974) Waterloo Sunset (originally recorded by The Kinks in 1967) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:54:34 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": I don't push the envelope - I lick it "Logrolling" is an old political term for trading influence to get one's pet project passed. Basically, "I'll work for your bill if you work for mine." It's implied that if it wasn't for this trade, you would NOT want to support the other guy's bill. In the article cited (which I have not bothered to read), I'm suspect the analogous trade is something like "I'll praise your movie, which I secretly couldn't care less about, in the hopes that you will in return praise mine." - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:08:03 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Robyn's This Is The BBC On Mar 30, 2006, at 2:56 AM, Charlotte Tupman wrote: > Woj wasn't kidding when he wrote about the speediness of delivery > from Hux Records - my CD arrived within 48 hours. Nice artwork, > and a poem by Robyn about the BBC. Will have to wait till this > evening to hear the music... > > http://www.huxrecords.com/ I checked out their site a few days ago (before Robyn's CD was available) and ended up ordering the Kevin Ayers, Graham Parker, and Brinsley Schwarz CD's. Good stuff there! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:14:27 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Now this is grotesque.... On 3/30/06, Eb wrote: > > > 10538 Overture (originally recorded by Electric Light Orchestra in 1972) > 20th Century Boy (originally recorded by T.Rex in 1973) > Dont Believe A Word (originally recorded by Thin Lizzy in 1976) > Drive-In Saturday (originally recorded by David Bowie in 1973) > Hanging On The Telephone (originally recorded by The Nerves in 1977, > and Blondie in 1978) > Hes Gonna Step On You Again (originally recorded by John Kongos in > 1971) > Hell Raiser (originally recorded by Sweet in 1973) > Little Bit Of Love (originally recorded by Free in 1972) > No Matter What (originally recorded by Badfinger in 1970) > Rock On (originally recorded by David Essex in 1973) > Stay With Me (originally recorded by Faces in 1971) > Street Life (originally recorded by Roxy Music in 1973) > The Golden Age Of Rock & Roll (originally recorded by Mott the Hoople > in 1974) > Waterloo Sunset (originally recorded by The Kinks in 1967) Dude. I almost, barely, fought back the vomit until the last one. I can never let a DL reference pass without citing the best tagline ever, for the movie-of-the-week "HYSTERIA: THE DEF LEPPARD STORY": "They wouldn't let sex, drugs, or the loss of their drummer's arm derail the dream". - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:16:44 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Semi-interesting Neutral Milk Hotel content http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2006/03/27 Neither the host nor (alas!) the author impress me at all, but...still sorta interesting. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:04:37 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Now this is grotesque.... Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > I can never let a DL reference pass without citing > the best tagline ever, for the movie-of-the- > week "HYSTERIA: THE DEF LEPPARD STORY": > > "They wouldn't let sex, drugs, or the loss of their > drummer's arm derail the dream". Christ....I mean, the first two parts are the goddamn dream. The last part, well, they didn't. And at least it's not Poison or Skid Row or Warrant or Limp Bizkit or .... "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:08:32 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Now this is grotesque.... On 3/30/06, Eb wrote: > The songs on the upcoming DEF LEPPARD album: > > [paste] > > 10538 Overture (originally recorded by Electric Light Orchestra in 1972) > 20th Century Boy (originally recorded by T.Rex in 1973) > Dont Believe A Word (originally recorded by Thin Lizzy in 1976) > Drive-In Saturday (originally recorded by David Bowie in 1973) > Hanging On The Telephone (originally recorded by The Nerves in 1977, > and Blondie in 1978) > Hes Gonna Step On You Again (originally recorded by John Kongos in > 1971) > Hell Raiser (originally recorded by Sweet in 1973) > Little Bit Of Love (originally recorded by Free in 1972) > No Matter What (originally recorded by Badfinger in 1970) > Rock On (originally recorded by David Essex in 1973) > Stay With Me (originally recorded by Faces in 1971) > Street Life (originally recorded by Roxy Music in 1973) > The Golden Age Of Rock & Roll (originally recorded by Mott the Hoople > in 1974) > Waterloo Sunset (originally recorded by The Kinks in 1967) Damn. Somebody should cover this list of tracks - but not Def Leppard. In fact if it were possible I'd rather hear all those bands cover Def Leppard songs. (Actually I think I do have one or two Def Leppard covers. Or maybe they're Raymond Leppard covers, I'm not certain.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:54:52 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Bob Just got back from seeing a *very* good Bob Mould gig here at Eddie's Attic in Decatur. Acoustic with a bit (5 songs?) electric at the end. The star-fucking bit comes in that I was standing next to Mike Mills for the entire show. That man likes his PBR. - -ferris. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:35:58 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #71 I wrote: >on the subject of Neil Young, what is that Ben Harper song that was a >big hit about a year or so back that sounded (to me at least) like a >complete lift from one of the songs on "Harvest" ("Don't let it bring >you down", ISTR) I worked it out: "Diamonds on the inside" seems to have been, ahem, influenced by "Out on the weekend". 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: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:46:48 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: selling some CDs Stop on by for a moving sale - -- $5 CDs (incl US shipping). Every order includes a free gift! Dolph, the Commercial ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:43:09 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Whether you give a damn about her music or not, this is pretty tragic www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006140354,00.html By VICTORIA NEWTON Showbiz Editor SUPERSTAR Whitney Houston has spiralled into a world of squalor and degradation on deadly crack  as the shocking pictures in today's Sun newspaper reveal. It shows the disgusting mess in the singers bathroom after a drug binge. Drug paraphernalia including a crack-smoking pipe, rolling papers, cocaine-caked spoons and cigarette ends are strewn across the surface tops. But Whitney, 42, no longer cares. She was one of the biggest female artists of her generation  with a string of 80s and 90s hit singles like I Wanna Dance With Somebody and more than 100million albums sold. Now she is a paranoid wreck hopelessly hooked on crack. Drugs have devastated her once-famous beauty. She is haggard, with dark circles under her eyes and a deranged look on her face. She regularly disappears for days and weeks at a time  holed up in seedy crack dens in dangerous parts of town. And she has blown much of her multi-million pound showbiz fortune on her habit. Now family and friends fear the addiction will end in her death unless she can beat it. The bathroom photo was taken by Whitneys sister-in-law Tina Brown at the five-bedroom mansion the star shares with her drug-abusing hubby Bobby Brown in Atlanta, Georgia. Tina, sister of Bobby, is herself a self-confessed former addict who once regularly took crack with mum-of-one Whitney. She is now clean. But she said: The truth needs to come out. Whitney wont stay off the drugs. Its every single day. Its so ugly. Everyone is so scared she is going to overdose. In a shocking interview, the mother of six told how Whitney spends days locked in her bedroom amid piles of rubbish. There the woman who co-starred with Kevin Costner in the 1992 hit movie The Bodyguard smokes crack, uses sex toys to satisfy herself and ignores personal hygiene. When high on drugs, she imagines she sees demons and is being beaten by them. The sad truth is that she bites and punches her own body without realising it. Millions of fans will find it hard to believe that THIS was once the wholesome girl admired for her stunning looks and amazing voice. The artist who started out aged 11 in a church gospel choir, encouraged by a family of top singers like her mother Cissy Houston, first cousin Dionne Warwick and godmother Aretha Franklin. Tragically, drug-crazed Whitney has refused all offers of help to get clean and has had failed spells in rehab. Tina, 42, said: Shell point to the floor and say, See that demon. Im telling you somebodys messing with Bobby. She always thinks its something to do with Bobby. But its her, hitting herself. In her paranoia, Whitney made a hole in the bathroom wall so she could see who was in the house. Tina said: She breaks everything  mirrors, phones, cabinets, appliances. She revealed Whitneys 13-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina was often frightened by her mums weird behaviour. Tina also claimed Whitney was so wasted on drugs that she wet herself  then put on a babys nappy. And once Whitney smoked crack on the way to a rehab clinic. Tina recalled: Shed say, Im just gonna act crazy. Whitney allegedly calls a stream of dealers to her house and buys eight balls of crack  eighth of an ounce rocks. Users usually break an eight ball up into smaller pieces. But Tina said Whitney cuts open a cigar, puts an entire eight ball inside it with marijuana and smokes it. Whitney was also rushed to hospital in 2003 with blood gushing from her nose  and emerged with a bizarre bandage on it. A source said: Everyone wondered what happened to Whitneys nose. Witnesses at a Las Vegas hotel described how she had earlier looked completely trashed. Tina added: I understand what shes going through. Addiction is a disease. Maybe this interview will save her life. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #72 *******************************