From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #195 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, August 22 2006 Volume 15 : Number 195 Today's Subjects: ----------------- re: Survey Time ["Michael Sweeney" ] reap [Eb ] Re: Interrogation [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: Interrogation [Tom Clark ] Re: Interrogation [Jeff Dwarf ] $39.95 plus shipping [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Interrogation ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ole tarantula pre-order [wojbearpig ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:03:04 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: re: Survey Time My answers are plugged in below (hope this isn't like the SAT/ACT -- I could only find a #3 pencil...darn it!) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:33:18 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Survey Time Been a while, so here we go... Are You a Hypnotist? No, but I play one on TV...wait, what do you mean you're NOT getting sleepy? (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding? Cannot be answered until B. Clinton's question of "What's so funny 'bout Peace, Economic Surplus and the occasional BJ?" is properly addressed... Who Was In My Room Last Night? Despite what he says, it was likely not John Mark Karr... Have You Fed The Fish? No, but they're in me... Ball-Hog or Tugboat? Hogboat... Man or Astroman? Can I guy a Hyphen, Pat? Any Downers? Many... Are You Ready For The Country? Perhaps moreso than I seem... Where Do You Go When You Die? Let me get back to you on that one... Are You Hung Up? On? or Well? Sometimes both...or neither... Who's Got The 10 1/2? Not Rollins, that's very clear by now... Why Do Birds Sing? Because they don't know the words...No, wait, that's not it... Do Rabbits Wonder? No, but, more importantly, do Eddies Stevie? Can I Take My Gun To Heaven? I'm sorry, Mr. Vice President, but that's gonna be a seriously moot question... Democracy? Not at this price... Whatever Happened to Corey Haim? What about Feldman, Hart, or Patterson? (Wait, as a Cubs fan, I frickin' know the answer to the last one)... Something/Anything? About 2/3 genius and 1/3 filler (maybe even 50/50)... Why are we sleeping ? Uh, because it's dark? (3:24 am local time, so...I guess I should be as well)... Do Policemen Sing? Except for the occasional track, not Andy or Stew... What's Love Got To Do With It? Got to do, got to do with it? Do You Know The Way To San Jose? Well, it really depends on where you are starting from, whether or not you have friends there. I suggest MapQuest or even Yahoo! Maps to help plot your journey, because, of course, L.A. is a great big freeway... Where Will You Go? Probably not as far as been predicted for me...but, then again, ya never know... Do You Realize? No, I tend to actualize... Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me? Baby, can I follow you down? How Do You Work This Thing? It goes in like Flynn and out like a lamb... O Brother, Where Art Thou? If the questioner is specifically John Turturro, the answer is either A) in "NYPD Blue" reruns, or B) in a semi-cameo in "World Trade Center" Do They Know It's Christmas? No... In The Flesh? [Loud, choppy power guitar chords in response...] Where The Hell Is Bill? That's exactly what I'd like to know... Is This Music? No, it's architecture (not-at-all subliminal nod to regular list poster)... Julie, Do Ya Love Me? No, Jim... Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone? Same place all the flowers have gone -- Long time passing... Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony? I'm sorry -- did you just ask me to help your "Sony"? What's wrong with your Walkman again? Sister, Do You Know My Name? As long as it's not "Christian"... Was I In Your Dreams? Even as a Chicagoan, I have no Jeff Tweedy-related riposte to this inquiry... Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth? You can't HANDLE New Wave! Where Is My Mind? In a circle in a circle...Or a wheel within a wheel... What's New Pussycat? Whoa, uh-whoa, uh-whoa, oh-oh... Is She Weird? No, not at all -- it's completely normal for a family-values-oriented, Christian conservative commentator to have a very prominent Adam's apple and to have never been linked in any way, shape, or form with a man in her 45-some years on this earth as a scary, stretched-out, fake-pretty blonde... What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? See above... Are You Experienced? Well [wink, wink], it, of course [nod. nod] depends upon what you mean by expenienced [wink, wink]...unless you mean the sex stuff, in which case, I'm out... Where Are The Prawns? You know, I've been asking myself the same thing for some, what?, 27 years now? Will the location of some really large shrimp suffice? Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? [Smacks head] How many times have I told you? You have to be careful when working that zipper on your jeans, boy! Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby? You mean when she's standing in the shadows? Because in that case, not too many times, but, otherwise, of course, pretty much every day of my childhood and many days since... Gawd, I've apparently got time to kill a'plenty... Michael Sweeney ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:44:42 -0700 From: Eb Subject: reap I wouldn't be able to name titles that I own, but this guy's name sure is familiar to me.... And he was married to Linda Gray? Huh. Eb When Frank Sinatra ended his two-year retirement at 57 in 1973, Warner Bros. Records art director Ed Thrasher came up with the perfect title for the legendary singer's comeback album. The album - for Warner's Reprise Records label - with its cover photograph by Thrasher showing a relaxed and grinning Sinatra during a recording session, was called "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back." "Ed showed the artwork to Frank, and he just flipped, as we all did," recalled Joe Smith, former president of Warner Bros. Records. "Frank thought 'Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back' was a great phrase, and it later turned out to be an ad hook when Frank was out on the road again." As an art director, Smith said, "Ed had the talent for getting along with the talent, especially with a Frank Sinatra, who could get very cranky. With Ed, Frank was a pussycat. He never gave Ed any trouble about the covers." Thrasher, who worked on hundreds of major albums as an art director, died of cancer Aug. 5 at his Big Bear Lake home, said his son, Jeff. He was 74. Thrasher received 12 Grammy Award nominations as an art director from 1962 to 1974, the year he and fellow art director Christopher Whorf won Grammys for best album package for Mason Proffit's "Come & Gone." Joining Warner Bros. Records in 1964 after having been an art director at Capitol Records, Thrasher was the art director on a long string of albums from major artists. Among them: the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Are You Experienced?," Joni Mitchell's "Song to a Seagull," the Grateful Dead's "Anthem of the Sun," Sinatra's "My Way," Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey," Earth, Wind & Fire's "Earth, Wind & Fire," the Doobie Brothers' "Stampede," Commander Cody's "We've Got a Live One Here," Bill Cosby's "Wonderfulness" and Richard Pryor's "Was It Something I Said?" Thrasher did the photography for many of the albums, in addition to working on print ads and posters. In the early 1970s, he also worked with architect A. Quincy Jones on the design of the current Warner Bros. Records building on Warner Boulevard in Burbank. "He was talented, with a sense of humor and with a little take on things that was different from most art directors," Smith said. "He was really a prize." Said Stan Cornyn, a former Warner Bros. Records executive vice president who was director of creative services when he worked with Thrasher in the 1960s and '70s, "He was skilled and flexible, and flexibility is not a bad attitude to have when you're dealing with rock 'n' roll stars." Thrasher, Cornyn said, was able to "handle whatever came along," because of his "charm, sense of humor, and he knew his job." Thrasher's humor extended to occasional practical jokes. Noticing that the company's top executive routinely made a 10 a.m. stop at the sole upstairs restroom in the old Warner Bros. Records building, Thrasher installed a life-size dummy - with shoes, socks and pants pulled down to the ankles - on the toilet in the restroom's only stall. Thinking the stall was being used, the executive made repeated trips to the restroom, Cornyn said, before "he finally got down on his knees and figured it out." "This was Ed's idea of a good time, and I must say it was shared by all," Cornyn said. As a joke another time, Thrasher had the faces of Smith and Reprise Records President Mo Ostin, which had adorned a billboard on the Sunset Strip, peeled off and placed on top of the Warner Bros. Records building so the visages would gaze down at employees as they drove into the parking lot for work Monday. "It was characteristic of the kind of business attitude that hardly exists anymore," Cornyn said. "So he was a bon vivant, a good liver. And I think that enabled him to work with artists who, by and large, were nervous people. He did very well with them; he was a good hugger and satisfier. "It began to change when singer-songwriters became more prominent. Artists like the Grateful Dead and Joni Mitchell decided they wanted to do their own covers," Cornyn added. "Ed had to learn to put up with that, and he did. Others didn't want to do their own covers. Frank Sinatra never dreamed of doing that, but he was a previous generation," Cornyn said. After leaving Warner Bros. Records in 1979, Thrasher formed Ed Thrasher and Associates, an advertising company that created art for films, including Prince's "Purple Rain" and Mel Gibson's "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome." Born March 7, 1932, in Glendale, the future art director was the son of Edward Lee Thrasher Sr., a Los Angeles city councilman from 1931 to 1943. After graduating from John Marshall High School, Thrasher served in the Navy during the Korean War. He studied art and illustration at Los Angeles Trade Technical College and the County Art Institute before being hired as an assistant in the art department at Capitol Records in 1957. Thrasher, whose 22-year marriage to actress Linda Gray ended in divorce, is survived by his son; his daughter, Kehly Sloane; two grandchildren; and his sister, Marilyn Ball. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:40:25 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Interrogation Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > fegmaniax-digest Sunday, August 20 2006 Volume 15 : Number 194 > Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:33:18 -0700 > From: Tom Clark > Subject: Survey Time > > Been a while, so here we go... > > Are You a Hypnotist? > > (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding? * Nick Lowe's Cowboy Outfit (Really Elvis Costello in Disguise) > Who Was In My Room Last Night? > > Have You Fed The Fish? > > Ball-Hog or Tugboat? > > Man or Astroman? > > Any Downers? > > Are You Ready For The Country? > > Where Do You Go When You Die? > > Are You Hung Up? * The Mothers > Who's Got The 10 1/2? > > Why Do Birds Sing? > > Do Rabbits Wonder? > > Can I Take My Gun To Heaven? > > Democracy? > > Whatever Happened to Corey Haim? > > Something/Anything? > > Why are we sleeping ? * Kevin Ayers based on book by Gurdjieff > > Do Policemen Sing? * Some songwriter or other > > What's Love Got To Do With It? > > Do You Know The Way To San Jose? * Dionne Warwick > > Where Will You Go? > > Do You Realize? > > Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me? > > How Do You Work This Thing? > > O Brother, Where Art Thou? > > Do They Know It's Christmas? * Bob Geldof and Midge Ure > > In The Flesh? > > Where The Hell Is Bill? > > Is This Music? > > Julie, Do Ya Love Me? * One of those Tony Burrows outfits - White Plains possibly > > Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone? > > Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony? > > Sister, Do You Know My Name? > > Was I In Your Dreams? > > Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth? > > Where Is My Mind? > > What's New Pussycat? * Tom Jones courtesy of Woody Allen > > Is She Weird? > > What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? * The Mothers again > > Are You Experienced? * JMH > > Where Are The Prawns? * Down by the sea > > Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? > > Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby? * Standing in the shadow - - Mike "I gave my 10 top choices to the local paper today" Godwin - - Who do you love, Tom Clark? Ronnie Hawkins or Bo Diddley? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:42:57 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Interrogation On Aug 21, 2006, at 4:40 PM, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > - Who do you love, Tom Clark? Ronnie Hawkins or Bo Diddley? George Thorogood! - -tc, ducking... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:19:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Interrogation Tom Clark wrote: > hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > > - Who do you love, Tom Clark? Ronnie Hawkins or Bo > Diddley? > > George Thorogood! > > -tc, ducking... Jesus and fookin' Mary Chain, babee. . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:00:27 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: $39.95 plus shipping I wonder if these are flame-retardant? 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