From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #264 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, November 7 2006 Volume 15 : Number 264 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Just want to share... [Tom Clark ] Re: Just want to share... [Eb ] RE: brett milano review of OLE TARANTULA 3.5 (out of 4) stars ["Bachman, ] FYI ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Just want to share... ["Jason Brown" ] My name is "Eb", and I'll fuck you 'til your dick is blue ["Stacked Crook] Re: My name is "Eddie" [Eb ] Re: Just want to share...senator bob barr site:wikipedia.org [FSThomas ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #263 [Aaron Mandel ] Maybe Eb will find this funny [Tom Clark ] Re: Maybe Eb will find this funny ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: Maybe Eb will find this funny [2fs ] RE: need toronto tix? ["michael wells" ] Re: Reap [Steve Talkowski ] RE: FW: Event Reminder: Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus Three @ The Magic Bag ["Bachman, Michael" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:23:06 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Just want to share... I don't get to the cinema very often, but a few of us cut out of work on Friday to go see Borat. Not to jump on the bandwagon or anything, but holy shit I have never laughed so hard at the movies in my life. At one point I was literally doubled over, with tears running down my face. I give it 3 1/2 out of 4 whatevers. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:40:39 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Just want to share... Tom Clark wrote: > I don't get to the cinema very often, but a few of us cut out of > work on Friday to go see Borat. Not to jump on the bandwagon or > anything, but holy shit I have never laughed so hard at the movies > in my life. At one point I was literally doubled over, with tears > running down my face. I give it 3 1/2 out of 4 whatevers. I've seen very little Borat material as yet, but everything I have seen has urgently BEGGED me to avoid him altogether. 1. Latka Gravas 2. Fawlty Towers' Manuel 3. the Tony Shaloub character on "Wings" 4. Bill Dana 5. Borat 6. Yakov Smirnov 7. Cybill Shepherd Blah...you can have them all, and just leave me Latka. reap: Larissa Strickland of the Laughing Hyenas. I'm hearing Xanax overdose?!?! Doesn't really ruin my day, but add her to the list of dead people I've seen perform..... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:20:23 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: brett milano review of OLE TARANTULA 3.5 (out of 4) stars I didn't see a review of Ole! Tarantula in Rolling Stone. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of The Great Quail Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 9:19 AM To: Fegmaniax! Subject: Re: brett milano review of OLE TARANTULA 3.5 (out of 4) stars > Seems like there was some other recent Hitchcock album (Jewels for > Sophia?) where every review quoted the same line. What am I thinking of? I believe you may be thinking of "Sinister but Happy" on "Moss Elixir," the song that provided dozens of reviewers with "like a chandelier festooned with leeches." - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:22:02 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: FYI in-store at easy street rekkids on friday the 24th at 7:00 pm. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 12:27:45 -0800 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: Just want to share... On 11/6/06, Eb wrote: > Tom Clark wrote: > > I don't get to the cinema very often, but a few of us cut out of > > work on Friday to go see Borat. Not to jump on the bandwagon or > > anything, but holy shit I have never laughed so hard at the movies > > in my life. At one point I was literally doubled over, with tears > > running down my face. I give it 3 1/2 out of 4 whatevers. > > I've seen very little Borat material as yet, but everything I have > seen has urgently BEGGED me to avoid him altogether. Watch these two clips from the original shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJsukOL-0Os http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65d6_NQaOHo If you don't find that hilarious then you can totally write him off. Borat on his own is only reasonably funny, the real genius of his schtick is seeing him interact with unknowing strangers. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:35:09 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: My name is "Eb", and I'll fuck you 'til your dick is blue : Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:13:24 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: uno mas review >"Viva viva viva viva >Sea-Tac, They've got the best computers and coffee and smack.... This sure is the "I'll fuck you 'til your dick is blue/F-U-C-K Is that how you spell friend in your dictionary?"-style soundbite of this album, ain't it? Every damn review quotes it. FWB, Eb : Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:53:53 -0800 From: Eb Subject: re: Day and Night review "Viva Sea-tac," a Hitchcock concert staple for some time. Either Microsoft or "Fraiser" could heighten their hip quotients with lines like Coming and going/it has to be Boeing. and the reprise They've got the best computers and coffee and smack. - - --- And yet again.... ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 12:48:20 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: My name is "Eddie" Nicely done. OK, I remembered right. Eb > Sophia?) where every review quoted the same line. What am I > thinking of?> > > : > > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:13:24 -0800 > From: Eb > Subject: Re: uno mas review > >> "Viva viva viva viva >> Sea-Tac, They've got the best computers and coffee and smack.... > > This sure is the "I'll fuck you 'til your dick is blue/F-U-C-K Is > that how > you spell friend in your dictionary?"-style soundbite of this > album, ain't > it? Every damn review quotes it. > > FWB, > Eb > > : > > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:53:53 -0800 > From: Eb > Subject: re: Day and Night review > > "Viva > Sea-tac," a Hitchcock concert staple for some time. Either > Microsoft or > "Fraiser" could heighten their hip quotients with lines like Coming > and > going/it has to be Boeing. and the reprise They've got the best > computers > and coffee and smack. > - --- > And yet again.... ;) > > Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:38:40 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Just want to share...senator bob barr site:wikipedia.org Jason Brown wrote: > On 11/6/06, Eb wrote: >> Tom Clark wrote: > Borat on his own is only reasonably funny, the real genius of his > schtick is seeing him interact with unknowing strangers. Poor Bob Barr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barr). His reaction when eating Borat's "cheese" is priceless. - -f "not a real spoiler" thomas ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:17:01 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Just want to share... Jason Brown wrote: >> > I don't get to the cinema very often, but a few of us cut out of >> > work on Friday to go see Borat. Not to jump on the bandwagon or >> > anything, but holy shit I have never laughed so hard at the movies >> > in my life. At one point I was literally doubled over, with tears >> > running down my face. I give it 3 1/2 out of 4 whatevers. >> >> I've seen very little Borat material as yet, but everything I have >> seen has urgently BEGGED me to avoid him altogether. > > Watch these two clips from the original shows: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJsukOL-0Os > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65d6_NQaOHo > > If you don't find that hilarious then you can totally write him off. OK. I guess that's that, then. Watching him kinda reminds me of eating spoiled food. Those clips prompt two comments: 1) I can't imagine the context where that Congress candidate would allow Borat to go door-to-door with him. Seems so implausible that I wonder if it's real. 2) Does that Great Expectations woman always wear tiny miniskirts and repeatedly touch the knee of her potential applicants? Kind of a sleazy sales strategy, methinks. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 17:10:54 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #263 > From: Eb > Anyone have any thoughts on Robert Pollard's catalog outside of > Guided by Voices? Lately, I've been realizing just how bewilderingly > vast it is. Didn't realize just how many "bands" he has been in. 15 > of them? 20? The ones I actually pull out and listen to sometimes: Waved Out (under his own name), which has actual songs. "People Are Leaving" is probably my favorite 'pretty' Pollard song, actually. In Shop We Build Electric Chairs (under the name Nightwalker), which is mostly noise and fucking around; reminds me of The Dead C. Suitcase 2. Again, you have to like the fucking around, but I feel like with Pollard's huge solo discography, there's a difference between 'half-assed' and 'unfinished'. When he's joyfully and intensely half-assed, I can get into it; far too often he takes an idea that needs development and releases a first take. The Keene Brothers album sounded good from the few songs I heard, but I don't have it. > http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&q=%22They've+got+the+best > +computers+and+coffee+and+smack%22 > > Maybe I'm thinking of this? Not sure. The list discussion of that line's review-omnipresence is what made me start noticing it. a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:08:47 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Maybe Eb will find this funny Somebody at allmusic has an axe to grind, perhaps justifiably... http://tinyurl.com/wtrea - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 17:05:48 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Maybe Eb will find this funny On 11/6/06, Tom Clark wrote: > > Somebody at allmusic has an axe to grind, perhaps justifiably... > http://tinyurl.com/wtrea Perhaps. In fact I assume this is quite dreadful, but the vehemence of the review raises the same question these kind of bleatings always do for me: is this music really so unavoidable, or really "forced" onto the American public, or music criticism intelligentsia, in any way that's really worth resenting? I mean, I read entertainment news and stand in line at grocery stores like anyone else, so I have the average joe's familiarity with this backstory, but it's been plenty easy for me to not actually hear any Britney Spears music, or see her videos, much less her universally derided dork husband's. This stuff is just plain easy to ignore, so I never understand why people get so bent out of shape about it. Personally, I'm more tired of endless articles about the cultural significance of "Lost", but I can't really complain because apparently that's a big concern of journalism that's aimed at my basic demographic. Oh, well. I'm sure that "Lost" is a better TV show than K-Fed is a rapper; I just happen not to care. Currently trippin' over: Rip Rig + Panic. Every time I think I've plumbed the depths of postpunk, I stumble across something that I can't believe I'd never heard of, or at least noticed, before. - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:20:47 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: need toronto tix? Chromewaves.net is having a contest to give away tickets for Friday's show in Toronto: http://www.chromewaves.net/index.php?itemid=2418 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:48:13 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Maybe Eb will find this funny On 11/6/06, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > On 11/6/06, Tom Clark wrote: > > > > Somebody at allmusic has an axe to grind, perhaps justifiably... > > http://tinyurl.com/wtrea > > > Perhaps. In fact I assume this is quite dreadful, but the vehemence of > the > review raises the same question these kind of bleatings always do for me: > is this music really so unavoidable, or really "forced" onto the American > public, or music criticism intelligentsia, in any way that's really worth > resenting? > I'd say it's forced on you more if you're a music critic for an entity like AMG, where you're compelled to review everything. Esp. if you're Erlewine, basically AMG's founder. Anyway, the rancor is misplaced: it's not Federline himself whose dumbass "musical" "career" that deserves such splenetic ramblings, it's the industry that allows it to happen. I mean, let's say you're a moderately talented (by "moderately," I mean "in comparison to the average American") dancer, singer, and rapper, and you have this idea that maybe you could make a career if only you got just one lucky break. Federline got one of the luckiest breaks anyone could imagine: Britney Spears (incomprehensibly - but hey, it's not like I'm a millionaire bimbo) fell for him. How many guys in that situation are going to turn that down, and not try to make those dreams come true? Okay, so you're probably hearing strings in the background right about now. If we lived in a reality-based culture, Federline would be a modern-day Susan Alexander - and the public (and the industry) would have laughed his skinny white ass back to wherever he's from. But no - at that time, no one in the industry could possibly say no to Britney, so if she's all besmitten and thinks her charming precious K-Fed is a rapper, well, by all means let's hire the best synth-wranglers, pitch-correctors, and ProTools diddlers to whip something that sounds vaguely like a pop record into place. What's really annoying about this whole phenomenon (see also: William Hung) is the way the public simultaneously seems to realize that almost literally anyone could do it, given the resources dedicated to it, yet still thinks there's something special, or amusing, or whatever, about the results. Meanwhile, (Beloved Critical Favorite Of Your Choice) is reduced to driving his own 25-year-old Econoline across the states in the dead of night, playing shit-ass bars to audiences in the single digits. So I think if you are a music critic, and you hear all kinds of wonderful stuff that never stands a chance because it's unpromoted, on dinky labels that'll never make the malls, etc., and some tool like Federline comes along solely on the strength of his dumb luck, well, I guess that would fuel a bit of resentment, yes. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:40:33 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: need toronto tix? And for anyone with the traveling vibe who will be at Chicago and/or Detroit, I still have one extra ticket for Toronto that can be had for a bargain. Like nothing. But you have to get it from me in person. And give Rev. Chris a soul kiss. Michael "wait - strike that last bit" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 23:05:23 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Reap On Nov 5, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Lauren Elizabeth (gmail) wrote: > Actress Adrienne Shelly, 40. > > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/03/ap/entertainment/ > mainD8L5CE680.shtml Just watching the local NYC news tonight - construction worker charged with her murder. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Actress-Found-Dead.html? _r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1162872243-d3HA2PnrXSNVeCxof9YYxA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:30:36 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: FW: Event Reminder: Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus Three @ The Magic Bag The Woodward Brewery is fine by me as well! _____ From: Carissa Pintar [mailto:cpintar@wayne.edu] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 8:56 PM To: Bachman, Michael Subject: Re: FW: Event Reminder: Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus Three @ The Magic Bag that's thursday right? I will be in chicago the night before and toronto the next night. here in d' I will have newbie peeps in tow. I also have a ticket for theo, buut haven't heard a word from him. the woodward brewery is always a good meeting place, it big and noticeable.... I may have an extra toronto ticket =car - ---- Original message ---- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 10:31:48 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: FW: Event Reminder: Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus Three @ The Magic Bag To: Cc: "Carissa Pintar" , "Austin McLean" , Pre-show feg gathering planning time has arrived. Any suggestions? _____ From: Ticketmaster [mailto:support@reply.ticketmaster.com] Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 9:02 AM To: Bachman, Michael Subject: Event Reminder: Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus Three @ The Magic Bag Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:00pm Where: Magic Bag 22920 Woodward Avenue Ferndale, MI 48220 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:41:34 -0800 From: Eb Subject: reap Britney & Kevin. Groooan. Eb, hoping for some celebratory reap'ing about eight or nine hours from now ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #264 ********************************