From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #85 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, April 17 2006 Volume 15 : Number 085 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: As usual when talk turns to The Fall... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Gilmore Girls: the verdict ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: Make Re: Model [Jeff Dwarf ] What was that word...? [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:14:33 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: As usual when talk turns to The Fall... Lauren Elizabeth (gmail) wrote: > > Has anyone see "Cache"? Good movie, but miserable as fuck. Seriously, it'll mess up your day. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:10:30 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: Re: As usual when talk turns to TV shows... am i the only feg who likes family guy? are y'all just disgruntled arrested development fans? +w ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:50:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: As usual when talk turns to TV shows... wojizzle forizzle wrote: > am i the only feg who likes family guy? are y'all > just disgruntled arrested development fans? It's okay, but also significantly inferior in it's re-ignition than it was the first time around. But i would, for the most part, agree with the idea that it is just random jokes, rather than plot driven. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it does make it less interesting and entertaining on repeat viewings. "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: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:04:52 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: As usual when talk turns to TV shows... Good lord, I've been so busy that my fegMail has stacked up - 50+ eMails about TV shows? wow. I picked up the first season of Robot Chicken on DVD and we've been laughing to the point of tears during Friday lunch viewings at work. I came to "24" at the beginning of season four and am totally hooked with season five. A co-worker is lending me the complete first season and I watched the first disc (four episodes) in one sitting last night. Nice to see which characters have made it thru the entire series thus far. Tomorrow night, Logan is going down! - -Steve, also hooked on Lost since the beginning, albeit the cock- tease ABC does with the show. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:49:48 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: Re: As usual when talk turns to TV shows... one time at band camp, Jeff Dwarf said: > wojizzle forizzle wrote: >> am i the only feg who likes family guy? are y'all >> just disgruntled arrested development fans? > > It's okay, but also significantly inferior in it's > re-ignition than it was the first time around. i wouldn't disagree with that. > But i > would, for the most part, agree with the idea that it > is just random jokes, rather than plot driven. Nothing > inherently wrong with that, but it does make it less > interesting and entertaining on repeat viewings. the one thing i appreciate about family guy these days is that they aren't afraid to wear a joke out. they'll go ahead a spend several minutes on a tangential bit which doesn't serve any purpose except the funny -- even if it's not funny. i don't know why, but i really like that aspect of the show. maybe i'm just getting more random in my dotage. +w ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:55:20 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: As usual when talk turns to TV shows... Eb wrote: >BTW, let's not forget that Gilmore Girls has prominently showcased >Claudine Longet *twice*, which alone should be enough to justify the >show's continuation. ;) I finally broke down and bought a Claudine Longet album, "Hello Hello: The Best of Claudine Longet" which was released last year. Very decent, but I still give a slight edge to Frangoise Hardy. Eb, your on the clock to get a Hardy cd! Michael B. NP Stan Getz - Bossas and Ballads: The Lost Sessions ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:08:33 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: GG+GLP If you like the Gilmore Girls AND Grant-Lee Phillips, you're got more good news: http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060407/en_tv_eo/18748 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:43:04 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Gilmore Girls: the verdict On 4/15/06, Brian Huddell wrote: > > The kids and their mom are away for the weekend, and I have a ton of work > to > do. So naturally I decide to download the first season of Gilmore Girls > so > that Fegmaniax will make sense to me again. > > Before today I'd never seen even part of an episode. Now I'm 5 episodes > in > to the first season and I'm thoroughly smitten. Smote. The show did > smite > me. I like it a lot. In what I think is fairness to both the show and myself, I would've had a better shot at enjoying it if I'd approached it this way instead of via one random accidental sampling (as it's obviously an character development/plot arc type of show). I have had a few conversations over the weekend with Real Life Personages who had a similar experience to mine: no interest at first, mild surprise that so many people with good taste were so into it, checked it out, and didn't find it either terrible or especially compelling. Ya try some shows, ya get hooked. Try some others, ya don't. I've never found much pattern to my tastes in anything. Dunno why I should, really. So Battlestar Galactica is really good? That seems odd. I don't really get why you'd make a new show that is good based on an old one that wasn't (not the BSG wasn't the very best thing ever when I was seven). - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:44:04 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: As usual when talk turns to The Fall... Lauren wrote: >On DVD, it's been Antonioni. I finally noticed that "Blow-up" had >been released on DVD. Hey, I believe the audio commentator even used >the word "diagetic". I watched the trilogy too. It's the first time >I saw "L'Eclisse". I very much like the lack of non-diagetic noise in >Antonioni's work (before this thread, that thought would have taken me >three sentences, or one very long one.) It's so out of the ordinary >that his movies sometimes seem silent. Antonioni's 1975 film with Jack Nicholson "The Passenger", finally arrives in DVD from next month I believe. Last DVD I picked up was the Criterion Collection of Three Films of Louis Malle, a must for any fan of French films. Michael B. NP Buddy Guy - Bring 'Em In ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:18:54 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: As usual when talk turns to TV shows... Bachman, Michael wrote: >> BTW, let's not forget that Gilmore Girls has prominently showcased >> Claudine Longet *twice*, which alone should be enough to justify the >> show's continuation. ;) > > I finally broke down and bought a Claudine Longet album, "Hello Hello: > The Best of Claudine Longet" which was released last year. Very > decent, but > I still give a slight edge to Frangoise Hardy. Eb, your on the > clock to get > a Hardy cd! It might happen.... Starf*cking trivia: The first person who ever mentioned Francoise Hardy to me was...Laetitia Sadier. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:17:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Make Re: Model Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > So Battlestar Galactica is really good? That seems > odd. I don't really get why you'd make a new show > that is good based on an old one that wasn't (not > the BSG wasn't the very best thing ever when I was > seven). I don't have an opinion about BSG, but it seems that it would make more sense to remake a series or movie that sucked the first time around than remake one that was already good. We don't need another "Psycho" but someone might be able to make a good movie out of what was turned into "Christmas With the Kranks" (of course, you'd have to lose the apparently happy ending - -- no I didn't see it, but I remember when the early spots made it look like it might be a dark comedy on the excesses of "Merry Christmas or else" type behavior thinking it might be interesting, which it wasn't, of course). "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: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:18:06 -0700 From: Eb Subject: What was that word...? Someone posted an article awhile back about that mini-genre of backwoods artists who kinda wordlessly grunt and whoop along with hillbilly music? What was that style called again? Something starting with H? Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #85 *******************************