From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #151 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, June 30 2006 Volume 15 : Number 151 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: European Ogopogo? [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: European Ogopogo? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] FW: European Ogopogo? ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Werner Lou Reed Herzog ["Gene Hopstetter Jr." ] Cones! ["Brian Nupp" ] Lou Reed redux ["Michael Sweeney" ] Plush Nautiloids [FSThomas ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:43:05 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: European Ogopogo? Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > fegmaniax-digest Thursday, June 29 2006 Volume 15 : Number 150 > From: Sebastian Hagedorn > Subject: RE: self defense, hooligan style > It sure is. I'd like to take you up on your offer, especially since I > haven't yet been to Chicago and would definitely like to, but I have a > ticket for the Haldern festival that starts August 3d: > > Here's the lineup: > DONNERSTAG, 3. August 2006 > Spiegelzelt: > The Waking Eyes > Mystery Jets > Martha Wainwright > Novastar > Lambchop > FREITAG, 4. August 2006 > Spiegelzelt: > (Zippo 1) > (Zippo 2) > The High Dials > Anna Ternheim > B|hne: > The Veils > Morning Runner > The Zutons > We Are Scientists > The Cooper Temple Clause > Motorpsycho > Element Of Crime > Mogwai > Spiegelzelt: > The Revs Final Fantasy > > SAMSTAG, 5. August 2006 > > Spiegelzelt: > > (Zippo 3) > (Zippo 4) > > B|hne: > GEM > The Rifles > Islands > Guillemots > The Wrens > The Kooks > Paolo Nutini > James Dean Bradfield > The Divine Comedy > The Twilight Singers > Spiegelzelt: > Ed Harcourt > Kante * Wow! Ed Harcourt. Save me two tickets, Sebastian, in case my wife stages a miracle recovery and comes out of chemo 3 months early... > > It's my first festival in ages and the first one that stretches more than > one day. I'm a bit worried about the camping aspect (haven't even got a > tent yet), but what the heck. * Don't do it, Sebastian. Book a bed'n'breakfast instead. Nothing feels worse than that stiff, cold feeling after a night out in a field... > > Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:51:58 -0400 > From: "Bachman, Michael" > Subject: RE: Anita Lives with Brian and Keith > >> * Could you amplify, please? I was taught that "alright" was just a >> misspelling. > > If it were a misspelling (for "all right"), it would always mean the same > thing as "all right." However, to say that something is "all right" is to > say that all of it is right ("My son answered 68 math questions, and he got > them all right"). "Alright" does not mean that - at least not in American > usage. It's far more middling: "How was the movie?" "It was alright" - > meaning: it was no masterpiece, but it didn't utterly suck: it was okay, > pretty good, etc. * Yes, we have that here. I can accept that it is a different meaning. And what about "All RIGHT!" which hippies used to say all the time. As in: Rock star: Hallo, Bishops Stortford! How ya doing? Crowd: All RIGHT!!! > Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:15:19 -0700 > From: Tom Clark > Subject: Re: Werner Lou Reed Herzog > On Jun 28, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Eb wrote: >> I saw a very, very strange movie last night: "Incident at Loch >> Ness," a 2004 film-of-a-film with Werner Herzog going off to shoot >> a documentary about the Loch Ness monster. I don't want to post any >> spoilers, but suffice to say that I can't IMAGINE what his >> motivation for doing this film was. I have a hard time even >> attaching a "grade" to it. > > Interesting in that the guys on the Filmspotting podcast are in the > middle of a six-week Herzog/Kinski marathon. I'm not familiar with a > lot of his stuff, but it seems that a theme common to Herzog's work > is the folly of man in his attempts to understand and control > nature. A blatant recent example being "Grizzly Man". > http://filmspotting.net/marathons.htm> - -tc * I've probably seen this and forgotten it. My fave LNM moment is in a Dr Who episode where the monster rampages all the way from Loch Ness to London in the days before motorways. I mean, did it hitch-hike all the way? But that film with the "I have really hi-tech equipment and I'm going to film it this time" turns up over and over again, with a different bloke and different hi-tech equipment each time. They usually finish up replicating the surgeon's photograph out of frustration; or replicating the upturned boat film out of false pride... - - Mike Godwin n.p. Blue Ridge Rangers in anticipation of John Fogerty tonight! PS Explanation of "Anita lives with Brian and Keith" next week... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:56:26 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: European Ogopogo? - --On 29. Juni 2006 12:43:05 +0100 hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > * Wow! Ed Harcourt. Save me two tickets, Sebastian, in case my wife > stages a miracle recovery and comes out of chemo 3 months early... Sorry, it's already sold out. All the best to you and your wife nonetheless! >> It's my first festival in ages and the first one that stretches more than >> one day. I'm a bit worried about the camping aspect (haven't even got a >> tent yet), but what the heck. > > * Don't do it, Sebastian. Book a bed'n'breakfast instead. Nothing feels > worse than that stiff, cold feeling after a night out in a field... Well, the friends I'm going with are seasoned festival-goers and insist that it's half the fun ;-) Anyway, I doubt there'd be accomodations nearby. However, one of the groups is known as the whimp who goes back to Cologne each night, so if worse comes to worst I might join him ;-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:25:26 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: FW: European Ogopogo? > Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:15:19 -0700 > From: Tom Clark > Subject: Re: Werner Lou Reed Herzog > On Jun 28, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Eb wrote: >>> I saw a very, very strange movie last night: "Incident at Loch >>> Ness," a 2004 film-of-a-film with Werner Herzog going off to shoot >>> a documentary about the Loch Ness monster. I don't want to post any >>> spoilers, but suffice to say that I can't IMAGINE what his >>> motivation for doing this film was. I have a hard time even >>> attaching a "grade" to it. > >> Interesting in that the guys on the Filmspotting podcast are in the >> middle of a six-week Herzog/Kinski marathon. I'm not familiar with a >> lot of his stuff, but it seems that a theme common to Herzog's work >> is the folly of man in his attempts to understand and control > nature. A blatant recent example being "Grizzly Man". >> http://filmspotting.net/marathons.htm> - -tc >* I've probably seen this and forgotten it. My fave LNM moment is in a >Dr Who episode where the monster rampages all the way from Loch Ness to >London in the days before motorways. I mean, did it hitch-hike all the >way? But that film with the "I have really hi-tech equipment and I'm >going to film it this time" turns up over and over again, with a >different bloke and different hi-tech equipment each time. They usually >finish up replicating the surgeon's photograph out of frustration; or >replicating the upturned boat film out of false pride... A decent third season X-Files episode featured a LNM type creature, only it inhabited Huevelman's Lake in Georgia. The locals called it Big Blue. Michael B. NP Before Three O'Clock - Happen Happened ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:04:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: European Ogopogo? hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > PS Explanation of "Anita lives with Brian and Keith" > next week... It's not just Pallenberg, Jones, and Richard[s]? "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. And we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together. To build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking. And it's greatest failures by NOT talking. It doesn't have to be like this! Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. -- Stephen W. Hawking . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:32:03 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: Werner Lou Reed Herzog > From: Tom Clark > On Jun 28, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Eb wrote: > > I'm not familiar with a lot of his stuff, but it seems that a theme > common to Herzog's work is the folly of man in his attempts to > understand and control nature. Ding! Now watch "Fitzcarraldo" and "Aguirre, The Wrath of God," both of which really drive that theme home. Favorite scene: Aguirre, on a dilapidated raft, surrounded by dead colleagues, staring at the monkeys which have infested the raft, with utter contempt: < http:// tinyurl.com/ep9px >. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:18:42 -0400 From: "Brian Nupp" Subject: Cones! from Japan! See Matthew Seligman's blog (just down a bit...) http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/snail/ - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:45:24 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Lou Reed redux Quail wrote: "Sigh. I only wish Lou were still making albums like "Transformer," "The Blue Mask," and "New York." Unlike many Fegs, I still enjoy his recent stuff -- and he was *great* in concert last year! -- but I miss the somewhat-less-than-happy Lou." Hi all -- My first post...longtime Robyn fan here in Chicago...and been a reader of / lurker on the list. I have enjoyed reading the posts...even when they veered back into the realm of music (;->)... The Lou comments made me want to chime in... Although I was a big fan of "The Blue Mask," I probably rate "Berlin" and "Songs For 'Drella" (and, songwise, the singular "Street Hassle") as my faves (for taste reference)...and I absolutely adore "Ecstasy" as an unexpected late-Lou equivalent of Dylan's "Time out of Mind." Not a very happy sounding Lou, with some snarling guitar and cinematic songwriting. Some clunkers ("Baton Rouge" - ugh...Lou imaging a suburban life with grandkids), but starts strong, and just blew me away the first time I heard it. Happened to play it again the other night and really enjoy it. For fans who might have bailed on ol' Butch since he gave up singing for talking almost completely, this might be a good re-entry point...although I did not hear any of the "Poe" project stuff that followed it, so perhaps it was more aberration than harbinger. Maybe next time I'll even have something to say about RH...or politics (hint: "Hail to the Thief" is more than a Radiohead album title...lol). Thanks! Michael Sweeney ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:00:07 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Plush Nautiloids Thank God it's Friday. For the weekend: A how-to on knitting nautiloids: http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring06/PATTnautie.html "For almost 500 million years, nautiloids were the coolest kids around. They ate trilobites, had shells in a variety of fantastical shapes, and ranged from bite-size to 12 feet long. Every scary prehistoric beast should be made into a huggable toy, and I say it's the nautiloid's turn. With this pattern you can make one in an evening, in easy stockinette on dpns." Whatever dpns means. - -ferris. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #151 ********************************