From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #143 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, June 20 2006 Volume 15 : Number 143 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Gee...how did I miss hearing THIS exciting news? [Tom Clark ] Your video of the day [Tom Clark ] reap [Eb ] RE: Your video of the day ["Brian Nupp" ] Re: reap [2fs ] Internet woes! [The Great Quail ] Re: Internet woes! [Eb ] Re: reap ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: Your video of the day [Capuchin ] Re: Internet woes! [2fs ] Re: reap [2fs ] Re: Your video of the day [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:17:28 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Gee...how did I miss hearing THIS exciting news? On Jun 19, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Eb wrote: > Bow Wow, Bubba Sparxxx, Dem Franchize Boyz and Rick Ross picked up > their awards during a ceremony today at the Time Warner Center in > New York City. Columbia Records Bow Wow picked up Platinum awards > for Let Me Hold You and Like You and a Gold award for Fresh > Azimiz. Bubba Sparxxxs Ms. New Booty earned the Virgin Records > rapper a Gold award. Virgin Records Dem Franchize Boyz earned a > Platinum award for the snap music anthem Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It > and a Gold award for the smash I Think They Like Me. Rick Ross  > Hustlin won a Gold award for the Def Jam/Slip-N-Slide rapper. > > A&Ms Black Eyed Peas earned a Multi-Platinum award for My Humps, > as did Universals Chamillionaire for Ridin. Atlantic Records > artist D4L grabbed a Multi-Platinum award for the infectious hit  > Laffy Taffy, and Jives T-Pain also went Multi-Platinum for Im N > Luv (Wit a Stripper). My brain hurts from reading that. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:47:41 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Gee...how did I miss hearing THIS exciting news? On 6/19/06, Eb wrote: > > [See the first batch of certifications at http://www.riaa.com/news/ > newsletter/061406.asp] > > June 14, 2006 > > RIAA Launches New Gold And Platinum Award For Ringtones I'm at a loss as to how what song one has for a ringtone expresses anything about one's identity other than "I am the type of person who has a song for a ringtone on my cell phone". So the RIAA is tracking how many times stuff gets downloaded... how? By how many times people pay for it? (Snicker...) - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:10:35 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: RE: World Cup - --On 9. Juni 2006 11:22:31 -0500 Michael Wells wrote: > Sebastian: >> I'll see the Czech Republic play Ghana here in Cologne. > > Enjoy, Sebastian! Thanks, I did, even though I was rooting for the Czechs. It was my birthday and the friends I went with had even bought me the jersey. Here's a photo: > I can only imagine. I got nice midfield tickets for > the Chelsea v. MLS All-Stars here in August, but it's not quite the same > ;) On the bright side we open our new stadium Sunday, which will be fun. Where is "here"? I gotta say, atmosphere-wise this beat everything else I've seen up to now. I've been to Champions League matches and top Bundesliga matches, but as you say: it's not quite the same. >> I'm hoping for a great tournament and maybe, hopefully, the fourth > championship for Germany. > > A long shot with Ballack hurting, you think? Ballack is overestimated ;-) My personal favorite is Bernd Schneider, even though he has never played as well again as in the 2002 final! Cheers, Sebastian - -- Sebastian Hagedorn http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:56:42 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Your video of the day Pointless guitar wankage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbK1OTreSM - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:53:24 -0700 From: Eb Subject: reap http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060620/ap_en_mu/britain_top_of_the_pops BBC cancels 'Top of the Pops' The British Broadcasting Corp. announced Tuesday that it is canceling "Top of the Pops," its flagship music chart show, after more than four decades on the air. BBC director of television Jana Bennett said the show, which first appeared in 1964, would air for the last time on July 30. "We're very proud of a show which has survived 42 years in the U.K. and gone on to become a worldwide brand, but the time has come to bring the show to its natural conclusion," she said. "Top of the Pops" has featured everyone from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to Nirvana and the Spice Girls. At its peak, the weekly rundown of Britain's best-selling acts attracted more than 15 million viewers. The show has suffered flagging ratings in recent years as it faced competition from cable and satellite music channels and the Internet. Last year it was moved from the main BBC1 channel to BBC2, which attracts a smaller audience. In a statement, the BBC said that "in a rapidly changing musical landscape 'Top of the Pops' no longer occupies the central role it once did." Bennett said the BBC remained committed to music, and announced a slew of new shows, including a rock history series entitled "The Seven Ages of Rock." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:21:24 -0400 From: "Brian Nupp" Subject: RE: Your video of the day >Pointless guitar wankage: >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbK1OTreSM > >-tc Wah-hahaha! Can you imagine if Robyn toured with this guy? - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:34:47 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: reap On 6/20/06, Eb wrote: > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060620/ap_en_mu/britain_top_of_the_pops > > BBC cancels 'Top of the Pops'... > > Bennett said the BBC remained committed to music, and announced a > slew of new shows, including a rock history series entitled "The > Seven Ages of Rock." Isn't that the 21-minute suite from Spinal Tap's fourth album? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:17:47 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Internet woes! If I may please vent.... As some of you know, I used to have a homepage at GreatQuail.com. It was my own personal, and contained all my non-Modern Word writings. I've had it for five years. Well, renewing the domain name slipped my mind, and it was immediately purchased by a man named Mariusz Zebrowski, who set it up as a pointer to his porn site. I wrote him, and naturally, he wants a large fee in return for returning the domain name. So, all my personal pieces on classical music, 9-11, travel, and my "New York by Night" vampire RPG writings are now gone, and all the links to them are dead, or redirected to porn. I doubt there is anything anyone can do. (though it crossed my mind to register MariuszZebrowski,com!) But if anyone has any ideas, I'd be happy if you could share them with me off-list. At the very least, I want to shout out his name: Mariusz Zebrowski! You are an asshole! If you ever do a search for your name, let it be linked with the word ASSHOLE! Thank you. - --Quail PS: Oh, and fuck Mariusz Zebrowski! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:44:53 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Internet woes! The Great Quail wrote: > I doubt there is anything anyone can do. (though it crossed my mind to > register MariuszZebrowski,com!) But if anyone has any ideas, I'd be > happy if > you could share them with me off-list. Why don't you register MariuszZebrowskiIsAnAsshole.com, instead? It seems to be available. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:02:32 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: reap On 6/20/06, Eb wrote: > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060620/ap_en_mu/britain_top_of_the_pops > > BBC cancels 'Top of the Pops' > > The British Broadcasting Corp. announced Tuesday that it is canceling > "Top of the Pops," its flagship music chart show, after more than > four decades on the air. Jeez... upon hearing the show mentioned two or three times on that Art Brut record, I was kinda wondering if it was really still on the air or being deployed metaphorically. - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:54:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Your video of the day On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Tom Clark wrote: > Pointless guitar wankage: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbK1OTreSM My personal favorite guitar wankage: J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin _______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:17:03 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Internet woes! On 6/20/06, Eb wrote: > > The Great Quail wrote: > > I doubt there is anything anyone can do. (though it crossed my mind to > > register MariuszZebrowski,com!) But if anyone has any ideas, I'd be > > happy if > > you could share them with me off-list. > > Why don't you register MariuszZebrowskiIsAnAsshole.com, instead? It > seems to be available. ;) It seems thegreatquail.com is available as well. So the material itself was just deleted from the ISP's server? You'd think they'd do you the courtesy of reminding you to renew and that everything would vanish if you didn't... I know nothing about ISP business practices - but that would seem a simple courtesy, and one that would seem cost-effective (if only because hey, people *would* renew) as well as prevent people from being pissed off at the ISP. Unless (as I said, I know nothing about...) things just don't work that way... You had no local backup for that material? Remind me to make sure I have copies of anything online that I want to keep! (I think I do, in fact...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:20:38 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: reap On 6/20/06, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > On 6/20/06, Eb wrote: > > > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060620/ap_en_mu/britain_top_of_the_pops > > > > BBC cancels 'Top of the Pops' > > > > The British Broadcasting Corp. announced Tuesday that it is canceling > > "Top of the Pops," its flagship music chart show, after more than > > four decades on the air. > > > Jeez... upon hearing the show mentioned two or three times on that Art > Brut > record, I was kinda wondering if it was really still on the air or being > deployed metaphorically. In fact, that's its new mission: from its former status as "flagship music chart show" (not to be confused with "seagoing vexillogical diagramming music," which I think is Brian Eno's new project), it will now be deployed to the Middle East as part of Blair's war effort to serve as a rather ironic metaphor. Oh. You were using "deployed" metaphorically. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:30:01 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Your video of the day On 6/20/06, Tom Clark wrote: > > Pointless guitar wankage: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbK1OTreSM Why is it people who play the guitar like that also think it's still 1976? What was funny is the way he did all these cheezy rock-guitar moves (like pointlessly playing inside out and upside down) but stood stock still the whole time: stunning stage presence the guy has... I mean, if you're gonna do that shit, you've also gotta leap around, set things on fire, have a zucchini in your trousers, etc. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #143 ********************************