From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #228 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, October 1 2006 Volume 15 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- from Yep Roc [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] re: [xx ] NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock - Gideon Coe Radio 6 - 27.09.06 (without flaw) [wojbearpig ] Re: My name is "Eb", and today is my super-spaceout day ["Spotted Eagle R] Re: (Not Flesh) Cartoons [Steve Talkowski ] Re: (Not Flesh) Cartoons ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: (Not Flesh) Cartoons [Jeff Dwarf ] Penn & Teller v. PETA [FSThomas ] Re: (Not Flesh) Cartoons ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: Penn & Teller v. PETA [Benjamin Lukoff ] HOSED! [Eb ] Re: HOSED! [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: HOSED! [Eb ] Re: HOSED! [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: HOSED! [2fs ] Re: HOSED! [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Random [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:46:17 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: from Yep Roc Yep Roc rocks your bones with Halloween compilation Yep Roc's first soundtrack for your favorite freaky holiday, Rockin' Bones, is perfect for setting an All Hallows Eve kinda mood. This sampler rocks harder than your Ozzie costume, with songs by Robyn Hitchcock, Radio Birdman, Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers, Los Straitjackets, The Minus 5, and more! Rockin' Bones also features The Fleshtones unreleased track, "Ghoulman Confidential" on. At $9.99, Rockin' Bones is no trick, it's all treat. [digital only album] Five days left to get unreleased Robyn Hitchcock track Don't miss your chance to get the unreleased Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 track, "Embryo Twirl." With only five days left, time is running out faster than Oprah's biological clock. Pre-order your copy of Oli! Tarantula and you can download the mp3 version of the song from your Stash right away, exclusively at the Yep Roc Web Shop. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:44:33 -0700 (PDT) From: xx Subject: re: Nuppy wrote: >Who said OT is the best R.E.M. album in years? I agree. >'Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram) is my current >favorite too. It's the best R.E.M. album since Mark Eitzel's "West" album. - -g np - BT 'This Binary Universe" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:02:14 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock - Gideon Coe Radio 6 - 27.09.06 (without flaw) apparently, there was a flaw with one track of the previous torrent of this appearance which was inherent to the original recording. this is another recording of the same appearance that is problem free. (though, i listened to the first recording last night and don't remember hearing any glitches on the allegedly flawed track.) woj http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=114388&hit=1 - ----- Forwarded message from DIME ----- A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 114388 Title: Robyn Hitchcock - Gideon Coe Radio 6 - 27.09.06 (without flaw) Size: 86.88 MB Category: Acoustic Uploaded by: ocelot Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whole broadcast, including interview (without flaw), as one track: songs: Museum of Sex Ole Tarantula - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:29:52 -0400 From: blatzman@aol.com Subject: (Not Flesh) Cartoons Hey all. Just wondering if anyone else has fallen in love with Paul Westerbergs work on the new animated film Open Season. I downloaded a few tracks last night and was really impressed. Check it out on iTunes. It was released Tuesday. While I admire They Might Be Giants work on such kids favorites as Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Higglytown Heros, I have to say that Mr Westerberg is really showing them all how to write for animation. I downloaded Meet Me In The Meadow and Wild as I Wanna Be(Replacements Version) and you can bet I'm going to buy more. There's been some chat about submitting some of Westerberg's work on this film to the Academy. I'd tune in to the Academy Awards to see that! Haven't heard Ole Tarantula yet... But based on the comments here, I'm really thrilled about the idea of giving Robyn my money, since I havne't in so long. I got really bored with the acoustic stuff. I havne't connected much with his work since Respect, but I think this time it's going to be different. Can't wait!!! Blatzy ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:58:17 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: My name is "Eb", and today is my super-spaceout day i actually just got *Five Songs* and *Castaways And Cutouts* from the library this week. boring, boring, boring. i think the best band in your town, by the way (that i'm aware of, and until sleater-kinney emerge from hibernation, and assuming the dandy warhols are now in their decline phase, and because i *know* you care) are the village green. check 'em out. i think it's more that she's just a complete idiot. i know she's supposed to be the great international-affairs brain and all. but looking at her public utterances, one would be hard-pressed to think she could even have graduated high school. i'm not either, for what it's worth. what i *am* into doing is merging multi-disc albums and comps into one single mega-play (took me the better part of an afternoon, fer example, to listen to my new christies "album" the other day -- actually the product of four discs from two different compilations), adding non-album tracks to the albums which the tracks were released in support of, and excising duplicate tracks (i.e., those which i already have on their original albums) from anthologies and greatest-hits records. that's 11 years. unless somefeg will upload it to usenet already. listening to the new beck right now, and i am *not* impressed. at all. what happened to the '06 mojo, for god's sake? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:04:12 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock - 27.09.06 Gideon Coe 6music (flaw removed and tracks split) third time's a charm? ;) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=114400&hit=1 - ----- Forwarded message from DIME ----- A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 114400 Title: Robyn Hitchcock - 27.09.06 Gideon Coe 6music (flaw removed and tracks split) Size: 114.06 MB Category: Acoustic Uploaded by: ocelot Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock on Gideon Coe Broadcast on 6 Music - Wed 27 Sep 2006 Freeview>Wavelab>Flac 01 chat 02 'Museum of Sex' 03 chat 04 'Ole Tarantula' 05 chat Personnel: Robyn Hitchcock - guitar and voice Ruby Wright - musical saw Colin Izod - saxaphones morris windsor - percussion michelle & subr - backing vocals - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:01:56 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and today is my spacely-sprocket day Stacked Crooked wrote: > the dandy warhols Now why did you have to go and mention that awful band? Now my peenis has gone flaccid. > listening to the new beck right now, and i am *not* impressed. at > all. > what happened to the '06 mojo, for god's sake? Hm. You're the second person I've heard say something like this. I didn't mention this yet, but I saw a semi-secret Beck show at a small club on Tuesday night. It was my first Beck show in about TEN YEARS (yikes). There's not much to say about it, because there weren't really any surprises. I was a little weary with the first half, because he played too many of his funky, one-chord party tunes in a row and they started to grow monotonous. But he pulled out some more melodic material later in the set ("Lost Cause," for one). One song even began with a stanza or two from the Stones' "No Expectations." Oh, and he retooled one of the final rappin' tunes such that the background riffs were alternating between "Another One Bites the Dust" and Bowie's "Fame." Starf*cking content: Seconds after walking into the venue and "choosing my spot," I realized Jason Falkner was standing almost next to me. Boy, that guy has not received his due. :( Speaking of Tuesday, I went out and didn't realize it was Gilmore Girls premiere night. Didn't set a timer. Damn, damn, damn, damn. Meanwhile, tomorrow is my birthday and I'm planning to "celebrate" tonight...but I have a very sore throat, thanks to whatever germs I picked up at Beck. Phooey. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:06:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and today is my super-spaceout day On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Stacked Crooked wrote: > point?> > > i think it's more that she's just a complete idiot. i know she's supposed > to be the great international-affairs brain and all. but looking at her > public utterances, one would be hard-pressed to think she could even have > graduated high school. Much as you'd probably like to believe it, you don't REALLY think Condi Rice is an actual idiot, do you? I mean, like someone with an IQ a third to a fifth of average? naaaahh.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:33:21 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: (Not Flesh) Cartoons On 9/29/06, blatzman@aol.com wrote: > > Hey all. Just wondering if anyone else has fallen in love with Paul > Westerbergs work on the new animated film Open Season. I downloaded a few > tracks last night and was really impressed. Check it out on iTunes. It was > released Tuesday. I didn't know Westerberg was involved with the film... I'm sure I'll be seeing it with my kids this weekend, so that's something to look forward to. Paul's been needing to try something different for a long time... not that his solo work is bad, it's just uniformly "meh", and he's one of those guys whose every album is a putative return-to-form that doesn't pan out. I saw almost every last one of the CGI kids' films this year, and most of them were really really formulaic. It's gotten to the point where I look at the trailers and can't believe how many of these things are getting made, and I really hope the ones that look at least a little unique turn out to be good. Too many eclectic-mammals-learn-lessons this year. "Happy Feet" looks really promising-- the Antarctic setting and realistic penguins might really work, as long as it's not too heavy on Robin Williams mugging it up. "Flushed Away" looks cute, but I've about had it with poo jokes... - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:40:49 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and today is my super-spaceout day On 9/29/06, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > i'm not either, for what it's worth. what i *am* into doing is merging > multi-disc albums and comps into one single mega-play (took me the better > part of an afternoon, fer example, to listen to my new christies "album" > the other day -- actually the product of four discs from two different > compilations), adding non-album tracks to the albums which the tracks were > released in support of, and excising duplicate tracks (i.e., those which i > already have on their original albums) from anthologies and greatest-hits > records. Good idea. I DL'ed the two "new" Replacements tracks form the recent best-of, and they can go live with "Nothing For All"... and just look at this new REM IRS-Years comp, with new unreleased stuff, but *without* the otherwise-unissued stuff from Eponymous and In The Attic? We'll just see about that. > (took me the better > part of an afternoon, fer example, to listen to my new christies "album" > the other day -- actually the product of four discs from two different > compilations), The phrase "new christies" looks odd to me, as if the word "minstrels" has somehow gone AWOL. I don't think I'm ever going to fully warm to the Decemberists either, but my year-end best-of is gonna be a bit of a logjam... - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:00:18 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: (Not Flesh) Cartoons On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > I saw almost every last one of the CGI kids' films this year, and > most of > them were really really formulaic. Very true. Cars was another Pixar milestone (among them, first to feature true raytracing out of Renderman) but the story was meh. > It's gotten to the point where I look at > the trailers and can't believe how many of these things are getting > made, The rate of CG films is rising exponentially every year... > and I really hope the ones that look at least a little unique turn > out to be > good. Well, these things often happen in pairs or triplets, i.e., Antz VS A Bug's LIfe VS Ant Bully being one recent example... This is by far the coolest trailer for a CG film since, well, the first Ice Age teaser trailer (which I worked on) featuring Scrat: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/surfsup/ > "Happy Feet" looks really promising-- the Antarctic setting and > realistic penguins might > really work, as long as it's not too heavy on Robin Williams > mugging it up. I just can't get excited about this one. Same old Williams schtick, and, I'm more excited about the premise for Surfs Up. > "Flushed Away" looks cute, but I've about had it with poo jokes... This is a big departure for Aardman, since they'll be replicating their style in CG. Though, their unique character design works well in any medium. http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/flushedaway/3_large.html (nice "making of" vignette) I thought Monster House was well done and a step up from the previous horrible mo-cap mess known as The Polar Express. Tonight, I'm seeing Open Season, which has some great character designs and impressive technical achievements. After drooling over the Surfs Up trailer, i'm beginning to hold Sony Pictures Animation in much higher esteem than PDI/Dreamworks, though, Over The Hedge was fun. Pixar is still on top, and (my former employer) Blue Sky's next film, Dr. Sueuss' Horton Hears a Who is gonna redeem the previous two live-action Seuss debacles... http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=16502 - -Steve (bias? what bias?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:50:19 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: (Not Flesh) Cartoons On 9/29/06, Steve Talkowski wrote: > > On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > > I saw almost every last one of the CGI kids' films this year, and > > most of > > them were really really formulaic. > > Very true. Cars was another Pixar milestone (among them, first to > feature true raytracing out of Renderman) but the story was meh. The story stuck with me longer than I thought it would-- felt a little recycled at the time, but hung around in my brain for a week or two... I think the desert scenery leant it some heft in retrospect. It pulled the trick that they do so well of selling an improbable premise-- I mean, living cars in a humanless world makes no sense whatsoever-- and selling it to the point where you just forget it entirely (the diametric opposite of udders on male cows... er, bulls... er... whuh?). > > This is a big departure for Aardman, since they'll be replicating > their style in CG. Though, their unique character design works well > in any medium. I was wondering what was up with that-- not entirely sure it was pure CG, although it looked like it, but so much of the design and movement and "feel" of an Aardman production were present in the trailer. The ads say "from the makers of Shrek and Madagascar"... rather like Disney touting itself as the creative force behind The Black Cauldron. Okay, that's nasty... Madagascar was okay, but it was no Chicken Run. For all of these films that I did see, I missed Monster House and Over the Hedge. Hadn't heard about the Horton adaptation, but that could be a very good thing. Apparently the Wickersham Brothers scared the hell out of me as a kid watching the Chuck Jones version (which mildly disappointed me when I saw it recently). The Grinch special still flies, though. I didn't see either live-action Suess adaptation and I bet they would bug me to no end... the Suess books are still so great, and I like reading them to the kids as much as they like hearing them (which is a lot, in case anyone's inclined to read that cynically). They really should be messed with as little as possible, conventional movie-story logic be damned... Curious George coulda used less story, too, although it was refreshingly sweet. - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:46:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: (Not Flesh) Cartoons Steve Talkowski wrote: > Blue Sky's next film, Dr. Sueuss' Horton Hears a > Who is gonna redeem the previous two live-action > Seuss debacles... The only thing that could redeem the two live-action Seus debacles is if watching them somehow drove Osama and/or Rumsfeld&Cheney to commit suicide. . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:03:52 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Penn & Teller v. PETA I love Penn & Teller and I despise PETA, so this is just a match made in heaven. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1913999390200944075 NSFW for language. - -f. /digging OT more than ever. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:49:32 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: (Not Flesh) Cartoons On 9/29/06, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Steve Talkowski wrote: > > Blue Sky's next film, Dr. Sueuss' Horton Hears a > > Who is gonna redeem the previous two live-action > > Seuss debacles... > > The only thing that could redeem the two live-action > Seus debacles is if watching them somehow drove Osama > and/or Rumsfeld&Cheney to commit suicide. In Seussian verse. Someone else can write the jokes better than I have time for. - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:32:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Penn & Teller v. PETA Sweet! I love this show. On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, FSThomas wrote: > I love Penn & Teller and I despise PETA, so this is just a match made in > heaven. > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1913999390200944075 > > NSFW for language. > > -f. > > /digging OT more than ever. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:33:31 -0700 From: Eb Subject: HOSED! So, I was all thrilled about finding a cheap copy of the Bats' "Compiletely Bats" for just $5 via a third-party seller on Amazon. Well, my package arrived in the mail today. Here is what it contained: http://www.amazon.com/Completely-Diamond-Rio/dp/B000069KB4 HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY. Looks like someone who would open for the Little River Band! I guess I get to explore the wonders of Amazon's return policy now...I wonder if the seller has the Bats CD and sent the wrong disc, or if the item was mislabeled in the first place? The latter would certainly explain the low price.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:48:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: HOSED! Eb wrote: > I guess I get to explore the wonders of Amazon's > return policy now...I wonder if the seller has the > Bats CD and sent the wrong disc, or if the item was > mislabeled in the first place? The latter would > certainly explain the low price.... For what it's worth, the one time I had to do this, I got my money back pretty easily. . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:05:28 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: HOSED! >> I guess I get to explore the wonders of Amazon's >> return policy now...I wonder if the seller has the >> Bats CD and sent the wrong disc, or if the item was >> mislabeled in the first place? The latter would >> certainly explain the low price.... > > For what it's worth, the one time I had to do this, I > got my money back pretty easily. But did you buy direct from Amazon, or third-party used (like I did)? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:10:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: HOSED! Eb wrote: > >> I guess I get to explore the wonders of Amazon's > >> return policy now...I wonder if the seller has > the > >> Bats CD and sent the wrong disc, or if the item > was > >> mislabeled in the first place? The latter would > >> certainly explain the low price.... > > > > For what it's worth, the one time I had to do > this, I > > got my money back pretty easily. > > But did you buy direct from Amazon, or third-party > used (like I did)? Third-party. The one time i didn't receive and item from Amazon, they just resent it. . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:00:55 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: HOSED! On 9/29/06, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > > > But did you buy direct from Amazon, or third-party > > used (like I did)? > > Third-party. The one time i didn't receive and item > from Amazon, they just resent it. And then they sulk about it, and mope, and give you pissy looks, and finally mutter, "I'm going out for a beer" and slam the door on their way out. - -- ...Jeff Norman: President, Hyphen Society The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:30:27 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: HOSED! - -- Eb is rumored to have mumbled on 29. September 2006 19:33:31 -0700 regarding HOSED!: > So, I was all thrilled about finding a cheap copy of the Bats' > "Compiletely Bats" for just $5 via a third-party seller on Amazon. > > Well, my package arrived in the mail today. > > Here is what it contained: > > http://www.amazon.com/Completely-Diamond-Rio/dp/B000069KB4 > > HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY. > > Looks like someone who would open for the Little River Band! > > I guess I get to explore the wonders of Amazon's return policy now...I > wonder if the seller has the Bats CD and sent the wrong disc, or if the > item was mislabeled in the first place? The latter would certainly > explain the low price.... The same thing already happened to me twice ... the one time I had ordered the first "Jack Frost" CD from a third-aprty vendor and got this instead: I just contacted the vendor and they sent me the right one. I never needed to contact Amazon. The other time wasn't really the same, because it was my own mistake. I was looking for Robyn's Luxor and ended up ordering this: Turns out that's an Austrian band named Luxor :-( I figured it was my mistake and I never tried to return it. Eventually I got the CD I actually wanted. Well, that was certainly a waste of money, because they're *both* crap ... ;-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:39:51 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Random Went on a birthday shopping spree at Amoeba yesterday...bought eight vinyl records and eight CDs for about $73. Minus some trade-in credit. I might not have bothered saying so, but one of the CDs I bought was Robyn's "Spooked." $6. A few other good deals: Marianne Faithfull's last album for $6, three classic Joni Mitchell records for $6 total (including the double-record Don Juan's Reckless Daughter), 50 Foot Wave's Golden Ocean for $5 (still shrinkwrapped!), Sylvian's Brilliant Trees ($2, vinyl), Komeda's Pop Pa Svenska ($5) and Chris Stamey's It's a Wonderful Life ($3, vinyl). I am underwhelmed by the volume of Feglist birthday wishes I received. ;P I feel like craaaaaap. I've had my typical "club cold" ever since two days after that Beck show, I've been sleeping horribly as a result AND, on Friday night, Lawndart forced me to get the most drunk I've been in over 20 years. Jagermeister and Corona. Yesterday morning was only the third significant hangover I've felt in my life. Ugh. I think I may go back to bed now. , Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #228 ********************************