From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #184 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, August 5 2006 Volume 15 : Number 184 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Ballad of a Thin Man [The Great Quail ] Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children [E] Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children [2f] Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children [Ca] Re: Rouge's Gallery out Aug 21 ["Gene Hopstetter Jr." ] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #183 ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children ["S] SHEESH...yet more reissues of reissues of reissues coming? [Eb Subject: Re: Ballad of a Thin Man > I think the sex thing is a metaphor for the character's cluelessness. Man, I just don't know. I can't think of a lot of other homoerotic imagery in Dylan. But the more I read the lyrics to "Thin Man," the more I can see your point. (At least the sex bit, not the gay gang bang.) Still, I think that given Dylan's lyrics of the time, the song's more literal collection of freaks and geeks makes more sense to me. Now, if it were, like, Morrissey... (Holy shot I'd love to hear Moz cover this song!) - --Queen Elvis ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:52:00 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children Stewart: > Shame that E's such a turd to his bandmates. What have you heard about this? News to me. Charlotte wrote: > With the usual caveat that I'm on the digest and somebody might > already have said this, a good starting point for Emitt Rhodes is > the compilation 'The (Very?) Best of Emitt Rhodes: the Dunhill > Years', which is available on CD. For the excellent Merry-go-Round > album I suspect you'll have to hunt down an LP; likewise for > Emitt's solo albums (of which the Dunhill compilation draws from > three). IMO the best of his solo work is to be found on 'Emitt > Rhodes' and 'Mirror'. In the recent past, the UK label Rev-Ola put out a gorgeous Merry-Go- Round anthology which includes EVERYTHING the band did. Even a strange, hidden version of "California Girls" which I never knew existed -- with guest licks from Herb Alpert! Getting this CD removed the need for THREE other MGR-related albums I owned, because it includes everything on the band's original album AND everything on Emitt Rhodes/American Dream. http://www.cherryred.co.uk/revola/artists/merrygoround.htm Quail: > Oh, wait -- does Wagner count? Seriously, now that I think of it, > I have spent more money on Wagner than anything else. I didn't even realize "The Bionic Woman" was available on DVD. Impending reap? > Tower Records Cut Off by Music Companies, L.A. Times Reports > 2006-08-04 09:23 (New York) > > By Dan Hart > Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Universal Music Group, Warner Music > Group Corp., EMI Group Plc and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have > suspended shipments of CDs to Tower Records after the company > said it wouldn't pay outstanding invoices, the Los Angeles Times > said, citing unidentified industry representatives. > The move comes after Tower hired crisis management > specialist Joseph D'Amico as chief executive amid declining sales > as consumers find new ways to acquire music, the Times said. The > company may be sold, the Times said, citing Tower executives. > If the suspension remains in effect, Tower Records may be > forced to close its 89 stores, the newspaper said. > The four record companies declined to comment to the Times, > as did an unidentified Tower spokesman. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:33:18 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children On 8/4/06, ken ostrander wrote: > > > > > > albums > i'd say: black flag, john cage Not rock. etta james dubiously "rock" steely dan How are they "LA"? Does anyone who ever lived anywhere near or recorded near LA get on the lsit? I think of SD as an NYC band - almost paradigmatically, even (although they later embodied a lot of LA-ness, I guess...) > and the argument could be made for: paula abdul What argument is that? ;-) linkin park Whom no one will remember 15 years from now. Crap. I'd support Sparks among that list (which I didn't look too closely at...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:12:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: >> I didn't find: >> The Germs >> The Go-Gos >> Fear >> >> Those are oversights, I think. > > Agreed. And somehow, I left out NWA. That was my oversight. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin _______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:31:40 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: Rouge's Gallery out Aug 21 > From: Beth Branchaw > > Songs of the Depp blue sea ... H O L Y S H I T: "... That was where someone like Mary Margaret O'Hara comes in, because she has the ability to invent a melody while singing straight out of a poetry book. Her track ('The Cry Of Man') is hands down my favourite thing on the record." Mary Margaret O'Hara! Mary Margaret O'Hara! Well, I'm sure at least woj will be excited about this too. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:34:20 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's great grandchildren LA bands: >> I didn't find: >> The Germs >> The Go-Gos >> Fear Was Grant Lee Buffalo considered LA? I see Ken caught Megadeath and Metallica Joe Walsh/The James Gang? Was Dave Alvin/The Blasters on the original list? Probably Michael "this space for rent" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:30:42 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Rouge's Gallery out Aug 21 On 8/4/06, Gene Hopstetter Jr. wrote: > > > From: Beth Branchaw > > > > Songs of the Depp blue sea ... > > H O L Y S H I T: > > "... That was where someone like Mary Margaret O'Hara comes in, > because she has the ability to invent a melody while singing straight > out of a poetry book. Her track ('The Cry Of Man') is hands down my > favourite thing on the record." > > Mary Margaret O'Hara! > Mary Margaret O'Hara! > > Well, I'm sure at least woj will be excited about this too. Me, too... her first release since the Chesnutt cover on "Sweet Releif II", right? - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:03:50 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: Rouge's Gallery out Aug 21 On Aug 4, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > Well, I'm sure at least woj will be excited about this too. > > Me, too... her first release since the Chesnutt cover on "Sweet > Releif II", right? I believe so, yes. Shit, I have that CD at home, too (not that I don't think Chesnutt isn't a lugubrious bore, because I do think he is), I oughta listen to it sometime. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:04:41 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: Re: Rouge's Gallery out Aug 21 one time at band camp, Spotted Eagle Ray (spottedeagleray@gmail.com) said: >On 8/4/06, Gene Hopstetter Jr. wrote: >> >> H O L Y S H I T: >> >> "... That was where someone like Mary Margaret O'Hara comes in, >> because she has the ability to invent a melody while singing straight >> out of a poetry book. Her track ('The Cry Of Man') is hands down my >> favourite thing on the record." >> >> Mary Margaret O'Hara! >> Mary Margaret O'Hara! >> >> Well, I'm sure at least woj will be excited about this too. >Me, too... her first release since the Chesnutt cover on "Sweet Releif II", >right? what about the vocal duties for the henrys? i think that was more recent, unless my vague memory is rather off. +w ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:13:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Death From Above 1979 Hated the name so much, I never bothered to notice the music.... Johnny Marr, it is also noted, is now a full-fledged Modest Mouse. Anything to prevent a new Healers album. . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:35:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children The Great Quail wrote: >> funny! but, c'mon, as bad as *Crash* may have >> been (and i personally found it more in the >> forgettable vein than the unforgivable), you >> aren't really gonna argue that it was more >> cringe-worthy than *Revenge Of The Sith* >> (which, granted, did *not* win best picture), are >> you? > > Yes, it was *much* more cringe-worthy. "Sith" is > worth the price of admission alone for the young > Obi-Wan saying, "Not the Younglings, too!" and > Natalie Portman asking young Darth to "Hold me like > you did by the lake on Naboo." Sith also doesn't have such unbelievable plot twists like Sandra Bullock realizing the help is her only real friend or the "good cop" shooting Ludicrous the way he did. It wasn't so superficial that even Brendan Fraser didn't have time to suck. And it doesn't go so far out its way to show how all races can be good and bad -- except the Asians, who only traffic slaves or cause traffic accidents. Sith was a somewhat gritty candy bar. Crash is a 7 course meal, where all the courses are shit. . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:34:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #183 Quail quotes Dylan: > Give me some milk > Or else go home" This bit is certainly evocative in ways that it wasn't before this thread. I got into Dylan comparatively recently, so I always kind of associated that song with sex, but it was because I remembered hearing over and over again in the mid-90s that the Counting Crows' "Mr. Jones" was secretly about Adam Duritz's, uh, midget. Rex: >> That Dog > > Worth investigating, although I suspect they may not have dated as well > I generally believe... still sound good to me, but if I heard them for > the first time today, I might have a Nineties Sound Block against 'em. A year or two ago, I had some positive memories attached to Retreat From The Sun that actually listening to the record did not justify. > So many people of that generation think of it as a sort of sequel to > "The Times They Are A Changin'" that I think it's kind of funny to think > of Dylan, kind of typically, taking the piss out of the myth of his > "Voice of a Generation" status by doing it on purpose: "Everybody's > gonna nod their heads and say "so true" about this because they'll think > it's about the squares of the older generation, but really it's gonna > make 'em look like a bunch of homos!" More generally, I think vaguely-defined secrecy is often legible as a metaphor for gay subtext, and gay subtext is often legible as a metaphor for secrecy/mystery. Wire may have had sexual motivations for "12XU" and "Practice Makes Perfect", but I always read those songs as being more about That Which Is Hidden than about sexual orientation. a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:33:07 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #183 On 8/4/06, Aaron Mandel wrote: > > > More generally, I think vaguely-defined secrecy is often legible as a > metaphor for gay subtext, and gay subtext is often legible as a metaphor > for secrecy/mystery. Wire may have had sexual motivations for "12XU" and > "Practice Makes Perfect", but I always read those songs as being more > about That Which Is Hidden than about sexual orientation. That's probably right, and I'd never thought of those two songs as especially gay-themed, although, again, when you think about them, the posibility is there. I mean, they're no "Mary Is a Dyke", but... - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:43:13 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children On Aug 4, 2006, at 10:33 AM, 2fs wrote: > steely dan > > How are they "LA"? Does anyone who ever lived anywhere near or > recorded near > LA get on the lsit? I think of SD as an NYC band - almost > paradigmatically, > even (although they later embodied a lot of LA-ness, I guess...) NYC songwriters-for-hire move to L.A. and set up shop with studio players. I guess that counts. - -tc [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:07:46 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children On 8/4/06, Tom Clark wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2006, at 10:33 AM, 2fs wrote: > > > steely dan > > > > How are they "LA"? Does anyone who ever lived anywhere near or > > recorded near > > LA get on the lsit? I think of SD as an NYC band - almost > > paradigmatically, > > even (although they later embodied a lot of LA-ness, I guess...) > > NYC songwriters-for-hire move to L.A. and set up shop with studio > players. I guess that counts. Yeah - but if working in LA counts, damned near every band on the planet counts. For a city like LA in particular, I would think something like having *formed* there, or consisting of people who were raised there or at least had lived there prior to forming the band, would seem essential. There's also the suburbs question - cuz aren't there a zillion pop-punk bands from a million of them, particularly if we include Orange County? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:29:42 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: Rouge's Gallery out Aug 21 It doesn't look like Robyn is on this. Robin Holcomb is listed on both sites where I found a track listing. But there are indications that they are planning a companion disc that has 17 songs set aside already-- http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002691275 Later, Marc A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it. Emo Phillips - ----- Original Message ----- > Thought this might be of interest. Follow the link for full text. > > Songs of the Depp blue sea > Independent - London,England,UK > Captain Jack Sparrow has inspired everyone from Sting to Nick Cave to > contribute to a nautical album. > ... Regular contributor and noted musician Kate St John was invited to > help put together the London sessions with Dirty Three member Warren > Ellis. She had under a week to arrange recording session with the likes of > Norma Waterson, Martin and Eliza Carthy, Ed Harcourt, David Thomas, Robyn > Hitchcock and Nick Cave ... > 'Rogue's Gallery' is out on 21 August on Anti-/Epitaph > http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article1211729.ece ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:06:54 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children On 8/4/06, 2fs wrote: > For a city like LA in particular, I would think something like having > *formed* there, or consisting of people who were raised there or at least > > > had lived there prior to forming the band, would seem > > I'd say you could set up a definition of "working out of LA" or "being home-based in LA" fairly easily. Being born here is defiintiely meaingless... I just now found out from AMG that-- and this is pretty weird-- John Doe, Exene, and Billy Zoom were ALL born in Illinois! No birthplace was listed for DJ Bonebrake, but hell, what band is more "LA" than X? > There's also the suburbs question - cuz aren't there a zillion pop-punk > bands from a million of them, particularly if we include Orange County? I mentioned a bunch of them earlier... I would leave them all out of the equation except that the Times list included the Minutemen (who are pretty explicit about being from San Pedro, which is in many ways less LA-ish than much of Orange County). But if you do extend the border south, would you do so to embrace artistic merit and influence (as with the Minutemen, Black Flag, etc.) or popularity (back to Gwen Stefani, friends, and everyone on Epitaph about whom I could care less)? The Times list bent in both directions from artist to artist. I'm getting awfully interested in The Merry Go-Round... - -SER - -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:33:23 -0700 From: Eb Subject: SHEESH...yet more reissues of reissues of reissues coming? From Billboard Online: Universal Acquires First 11 Costello Albums Universal Music Enterprises has acquired 11 albums from Elvis Costello's early catalog, with plans to re-release the artist's material via reissues, deluxe editions, compilations and box sets. The albums acquired begin with Costello's 1977 debut, "My Aim Is True," and continue through "This Year's Model" (1978), "Armed Forces" (1979), "Get Happy!!" (1980), "Almost Blue" (1981), "Trust" (1981), "Imperial Bedroom" (1982), "Punch the Clock" (1983), "Goodbye Cruel World" (1986), "King of America" (1986) and "Blood and Chocolate" (1986). Although these albums have already been reissued in expanded form by Rykodisc as well as Rhino, UME promises its new versions will be the "definitive reissues." The company also plans to produce limited edition releases for its Hip-O Select imprint, DVDs of videos and concerts and usher Costello's music into new formats such as ringtones. "A Pekingese in a tuxedo could sell you 'My Aim Is True,' you know," Costello told Billboard in May 2001, when the Rhino reissue campaign launched. "When you've got a record that maybe didn't reach its audience in its time, you have to use a bit of imagination in the way that you present it, to make it seem as if it might be worth investigating now." Costello just wrapped a tour with Allen Toussaint in support of their collaborative Verve Forecast album, "The River in Reverse." He will also be heard singing "Little Boxes," the theme song for the Showtime series "Weeds," on its Aug. 14 season premiere. The track will be sung by a different artist during each episode, including Englebert Humperdinck, Death Cab For Cutie, Ozomatli and Regina Spektor. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 21:36:29 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children On 8/4/06, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > > > On 8/4/06, 2fs wrote: > > > > > For a city like LA in particular, I would think something like having > > *formed* there, or consisting of people who were raised there or at > > least > > > > > had lived there prior to forming the band, would seem > > > > > I'd say you could set up a definition of "working out of LA" or "being > home-based in LA" fairly easily. Being born here is defiintiely > meaingless... I just now found out from AMG that-- and this is pretty > weird-- John Doe, Exene, and Billy Zoom were ALL born in Illinois! No > birthplace was listed for DJ Bonebrake, but hell, what band is more "LA" > than X? > True. That's pretty amusing... Billy Zoom is, as you probably know, a mild-mannered Christian guy who's a very well-rounded all-round musician, and despite attempts to paint him as some sort of crazed right-winger KKK-sympathizer, the interviews I've read with him post-X only suggest he's just a normal guy, fairly careful about his privacy and not all that tolerant of interviewers who want to paint him into a box. Get an open-eared interviewer, and he comes across well. X is perhaps paradigmatic of the way "punk" originally meant free of preconceived notions: sure, there were elemtns of loudfasthard in their music, but they pretty obviously had lots of other interests from the get-go. Bonebrake is apparently trained in both jazz and classical drumming; Zoom was quite obviously an extremely proficient and skilled guitar player (turns out he also plays woodwinds and drums, at least), and I think Doe wasn't that a great a bass-player to start with, he learned - and also developed his vocal instrument quite well, to the point now where if he's not straining, he's quite an impressive singer. The key "punk" thing, actually, was finding a space for Cervenka's wild, untrained voice - and the wail she made in conjunction with Doe's voice was a marvelous thing indeed, akin to but far wilder than the way Kantner and Slick harmonized in Jefferson Airplane, with a generally tighter and more economical musical backdrop. (I love the Airplane up through the very early '70s - later than some folks: I find much to love on both Bark and, damn, what's the title of the one that looked like a cigar box?) Anyway, back to the whole "LA" thing: no, I'd never say someone has to be *born* there (cuz no one is, right? Pregnant women are whisked away to Iowa to give birth, even if they've lived in LA nearly all their lives), but the real point is that at least key members of the band should have some sort of base in LA prior to their fame or recordings - othewise, they're "LA bands" primarily in the sense taht, as recording artists, their recording work brings them to the recording capital of the industry: LA. (I'm sure a similar argument could be made regarding which musicians are "Nashville artists" vs. country artists who've just taken up residence in Nashville for convenience in their business relations to the country industry located therein.) Back to a snide remark I made earlier: really, why is Herb Alpert on that list? If it were about "LA folks who've had significant impact on the industry," sure, Alpert belongs there (he co-foudned A&M, one of the first and longest-lasting indie labels) - but as a *musician*, I mean he had a few hits in the sixties that no one except irony-smitten hipsters listens to anymore. Oh, and that Whipped Cream and Other Delights album cover that everyone parodies. Also: while I think the Sugarplastic is a fine, innovative pop band, if they're on the list, why isn't the Negro Problem? From a commercial standpoint, both are equally marginal - and while both acts are well-regarded, neither seems to have performed sufficient critical BJs to have become complete darlings in that realm as well. Or maybe the Sp is way more popular *in* LA than TNP, I dunno... Sadly ironic that the "LA musicians" thing (including Love) came up mere days before Arthur Lee was finally wrecked for good. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 22:07:11 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: SHEESH...yet more reissues of reissues of reissues coming? On 8/4/06, Eb wrote: > > From Billboard Online: > > Universal Acquires First 11 Costello Albums > > Universal Music Enterprises has acquired 11 albums from Elvis > Costello's early catalog, with plans to re-release the artist's > material via reissues, deluxe editions, compilations and box sets. Okay, I consider myself to be a fairly obsessive Costello fan. I've bought his albums more often than anyone else's in my collection: almost all of them four times, in fact (original LP issues, Columbia CDs, Ryko CDs, Rhino CDs). Each time, it felt appropriate to do so, because either there was a significant sonic upgrade or additional tracks. But even though it's true there are rumored to be many more EC tracks in the vaults, as far as I can recall few of them are connected to official albums: there are lots of demos of songs others recorded, aborted projects, etc. UMG would be better advised to release *those*. Even I probably have reached my limit in rebuying EC albums. If there's only one or two new tracks on those reissues (and several of them fill to bursting the limits of two-disc sets), I'm not spending money on them. I will acquire the newly released tracks by other means. Enough's enough, you know? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:15:38 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children Eb wrote: > > What have you heard about this? News to me. He kicked out Tommy, and froze Butch out by not paying him while they were in a legal partnership. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 23:18:51 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children Can someone explain why the subject line has Eb eating a Moody Blues album? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 22:32:54 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I'll eat your children's children's children 2fs wrote: > Can someone explain why the subject line has Eb eating a Moody > Blues album? I made lemonade. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 17:41:02 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Lit-words and LA >Katzenjammer. >Frottage. >Disungergabbulate. >Thagomizer. >Quogenzocker. Well, frottage is a long accepted word. And I hate to tell you this, but palaeontologists have officially adopted the word "thagomizer", apparently. See . As such, it's as much passed into the language as other original "literary usages" like robot. However: Heffalump and poohsticks; verbing and kablooie; gumby; muggle; vogon; grinch; droog; misunderestimated; doublethink, thoughtcrime, and newspeak... >The L.A. Times recently published a list of their 36 all-time >greatest LA acts. Seemed pretty definitive to me, with no omissions >or unjust inclusions. What, no Zevon? >And I don't know much about these (Starting point?): > > Buffalo Springfield The first (self-titled) album is probably the best place to start, and move chronologically. They only put out three albums, but there's also a host of outtakes available on a boxed set, many of them very good (many of them less so...) 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: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 14:00:22 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth (gmail)" Subject: Errol Morris - "First Person" Hi Feg List, I've watched a few Errol Morris movies. I didn't know he had done this television series called "First Person" (turns out he had.) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240264/ To my surprise, disc 1 of season 1 features an interview with a guy who is fascinated with giant squids (N.B. not Robyn.) I've liked the films of his I've seen, particularly "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" but the television series has so far been disappointing. Morris' quirky camera work has come to seem pretty annoying. But worse is I find the interviews have more of a rubber-neck feel to them, as opposed to the genuine interest Morris seems to have for his subjects in e.g. "Gates of Heaven" and "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control." But giant squids, cool. xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #184 ********************************