From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #115 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 26 2006 Volume 15 : Number 115 Today's Subjects: ----------------- reap [Eb ] AVA capsule review ["Michael Wells" ] Re: I can't blame ya, Lalen(what is that squiggle?)a [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: I can't blame ya, Lalen(what is that squiggle?)a [Capuchin Subject: reap http://www.radiojamaica.com/news/story.php?category=2&story=24957 Desmond Dekker, 64 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 09:23:26 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: AVA capsule review Angels & Airwaves, May 25th at the Vic Theater, Chicago - aka Michael tries to figure out what those crazy kids are listening to nowadays. A Q101 show at the Vic, which meant a very young crowd, wacky hair dyes and piercings galore. Line down the street and around the block an hour and a half before doors, all teenaged angst, hormones and energy drinks. Maybe 5% of the crowd was of drinking age (read: parents) which meant wide-open bars for those so inclined, a rarity at the Vic usually. The show had sold out in something like 2 minutes and the crowd was exceedingly amped up - bursting into massive cheers whenever a roadie came onstage, etc - but it felt like a bit of "warm thrill of confusion." Maybe a lot of first-time concert-goers. I was never a big enough Blink 182 fan to justify going to a show when they were around, but the guitar sound on the new material is terrific - like Dave Sharp (erstwhile Alarm axe man) but with more midrange and heavier rhythms. That was enough to pull me in, though I wondered how they would produce the multiple layers present on the album off in a live setting. I don't think they did. I'm not sure how many people noticed, or even cared, that there was clearly *way* more noise coming out of the speakers than the band was making on stage; other non-visible instruments, multiple layers of guitars playing in different registers, etc. It was like listening to a live drummer - the excellent Atom Willard - with the record played over the top. Embarrassingly, twice in the first half hour one of the pre-recorded guitar loops went on a beat or two after everyone finished playing. That being said Tom DeLonge is a pretty good front man (insert appropriate joke here), at least in that he finishes every song with a single finger raised to the sky as the sound fades out and has bits like "you fucking rule, Chicago!" down pat. But he was giving 'em what they wanted, no crime there. All in all, I think people got what them came for - loud, buzzy, slightly uplifting songs about alienation and hope...but kind of like U2 Lite - just not a lot of "there" there, if you know what I mean. No weight to it. MW ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 16:23:02 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: I can't blame ya, Lalen(what is that squiggle?)a Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > fegmaniax-digest Thursday, May 25 2006 Volume 15 : Number 114 > > Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:59:01 -0400 (EDT) > From: Jill Brand > Subject: Donovan and other musings > Whatever album Lalena (put a little squiggle over that n) is on, my > brother had it, and when he wasn't around, I would take it from his room > and play Lalena (with squiggle) over and over and over and over on my > highly inferior record player. I don't own any Donovan on CD, so I might > have to rectify that problem. It's a tilde. The mathematical economist who gave a fascinating paper here this week couldn't get his graphics prog to do one so he had to spell it out as w tilde subscript i. Stewart, there must be an easy way of doing this? Fopps have currently got a CD called Donovan's Greatest Hits which has the studio version on it, sounding absolutely beautiful. I think that the production of 'Wear your love like heaven' on this album is the best sounding record I have ever heard* - produced by Mickie Most, a Mickie Most Production as it says on the label. He may not have liked most of the acts on Opportunity Knocks but he couldn't half produce records when he tried. Up there with Shel Talmy I reckon. I thought that the only version of Lalen(tilde)a I knew was the one on Donovan in Concert. Certainly that's the version I played with John Hodge and Matthew Bowns on BBC Radio Bristol (thud thud of broadcast dropping). However, it is also on Barabajagal, I believe. - - Mike Godwin PS Leslie West and Corky Laing were in awesome form at the Fleece on Wednesday, but they didn't play 'Travelling in the Dark'. Anyone fancy the drive to Poole on Tuesday or Swindon on Friday? My mate Gristy reckons I am as Mountain-barmy as his mate Kev is Arthur Lee-barmy... n.p. Blowing in the wind - Leslie West ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:07:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: I can't blame ya, Lalen(what is that squiggle?)a On Fri, 26 May 2006 hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > It's a tilde. The mathematical economist who gave a fascinating paper > here this week couldn't get his graphics prog to do one so he had to > spell it out as w tilde subscript i. Stewart, there must be an easy way > of doing this? If he were a mathematician, you would think he would use TeX (or some variant) for his presentation material. All the notation is easy and straightforward. If you meant in email, well, your client should support unicode or extended ASCII or one of those character encodings that does the right thing... That way, you can type stuff like "Bjvrk" and "Laleqa". J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin _______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:13:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: I can't blame ya, Lalen(what is that squiggle?)a On Fri, 26 May 2006, Capuchin wrote: > That way, you can type stuff like "Bjvrk" and "Laleqa". Ha! It didn't even come back to me properly! (I promise it was write when I composed it.) Maybe my encoding is set wrong for outgoing mail. Bah! J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin _______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:16:19 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: My name is "Eb", and I am the Feglist's MVP -- Most Venereal Playah holy crayyap. i'm two-and-a-half songs into the new morrissey; and it's beginning to sound like 2006 could be one for the ages. you got your TOOL, your calexico, your willie nile, your morrissey, your radiohead-on-tour. and if the early reviews for the new mission of burma are to be believed, it may well trump everything (save the TOOL, of course). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:34:21 -0700 (PDT) From: JBJ Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I am the Feglist's MVP -- Most Venereal Playah Mr. Tews - Give that Morrissey about 10 more listens. It will do the opposite of "grow on you". I haven't heard the Willie Nile, but I'll have to look around for it now. =jbj=, so far not too impressed with 2006's output. On Fri, 26 May 2006, Stacked Crooked wrote: > holy crayyap. i'm two-and-a-half songs into the new morrissey; and it's > beginning to sound like 2006 could be one for the ages. you got your TOOL, > your calexico, your willie nile, your morrissey, your radiohead-on-tour. > and if the early reviews for the new mission of burma are to be believed, > it may well trump everything (save the TOOL, of course). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:04:14 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: I can't blame ya, Lalen(what is that squiggle?)a - -- Capuchin is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Mai 2006 10:13:28 -0700 regarding Re: I can't blame ya, Lalen(what is that squiggle?)a: > On Fri, 26 May 2006, Capuchin wrote: >> That way, you can type stuff like "Bjvrk" and "Laleqa". > > Ha! It didn't even come back to me properly! (I promise it was write > when I composed it.) > > Maybe my encoding is set wrong for outgoing mail. Bah! It's not you, it's the listserver :-( X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from MULTIPART/MIXED by demime 0.97c-p1 X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain demime is notorious for this. It messes with the MIME headers in stupid ways. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 13:27:38 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: not-quite-half-year Pop 'n Rock favorites (0% TOOL) >holy crayyap. i'm two-and-a-half songs into the new morrissey; and it's >beginning to sound like 2006 could be one for the ages. It's been a good start, I'll give ya that. So far I'm liking: Peter Mulvey - THE KNUCKLEBALL SUITE Secret Machines - TEN SILVER DROPS Belle & Sebastian - THE LIFE PURSUIT Various Artists - A CASE FOR CASE (tribute to Peter Case) The Sword - AGE OF WINTERS Shivkumar Sharma - THE FLOW OF TIME Pearl Jam - PEARL JAM The M's - Future Women Jeffrey Foucault - GHOST REPEATER With more to come, I'm sure... Michael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 11:15:08 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I am the Feglist's MVP -- Most Venereal Playah On 5/26/06, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > holy crayyap. i'm two-and-a-half songs into the new morrissey; and it's > beginning to sound like 2006 could be one for the ages. you got your > TOOL, > your calexico, your willie nile, your morrissey, your radiohead-on-tour. > and if the early reviews for the new mission of burma are to be believed, > it may well trump everything (save the TOOL, of course). Was just gonna ask about that Burma record. Sounds very promising. I also hadn't realized that the new Sonic Youth wasn't actually, erm, released or anything yet, but it's good. I heard the Morrissey single and actually thought it was easily the most listenable thing I'd heard from in ages. Can't imagine anything ever making me want to listen to Tool, though. Some kinda impermeable barrier in place there, in the foggy distance past the "liking King Crimson" hurdle I have yet to leap. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 14:10:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I am the Feglist's MVP -- Most Venereal Playah On Fri, 26 May 2006, Stacked Crooked wrote: > holy crayyap. i'm two-and-a-half songs into the new morrissey; and it's > beginning to sound like 2006 could be one for the ages. Yeah, I really love the new Morrissey. But it's been hit and miss with friends. For me, it's like something totally new and still very much Morrissey -- like he kept the good bits and changed everything else in every way he could imagine. Good stuff. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin _______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 14:17:09 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I am the Feglist's MVP -- Most Venereal Playah Please take my name off all threads which discuss Morrissey. Thanks. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:31:06 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: Re: I can't blame ya, Lalen(what is that squiggle?)a one time at band camp, Sebastian Hagedorn said: > -- Capuchin is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Mai > 2006 10:13:28 -0700 regarding Re: I can't blame ya, Lalen(what is that > squiggle?)a: > >> On Fri, 26 May 2006, Capuchin wrote: >>> That way, you can type stuff like "Bjvrk" and "Laleqa". >> >> Ha! It didn't even come back to me properly! (I promise it was write >> when I composed it.) >> >> Maybe my encoding is set wrong for outgoing mail. Bah! > > It's not you, it's the listserver :-( demime is mail filter, not a mailing list manager. majordomo is the mailing list manager on smoe.org ;) > X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from MULTIPART/MIXED by demime 0.97c-p1 > X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain > > demime is notorious for this. It messes with the MIME headers in stupid > ways. unfortunately, mime messes with majordomo is stupid ways, hence the decision to install demime on smoe many moons ago. one of these days, we'll migrate this list to majordomo2 which does play nicely with mime (and is already installed). woj ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #115 ********************************