From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #273 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, November 15 2006 Volume 15 : Number 273 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: gapless [2fs ] "blinking" ["m swedene" ] Re: "blinking" [FSThomas ] robyn radio 11/16 thursday (3 shows) [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Peace Concert ["Bri N" ] Re: iTunes 7 "gapless album" question [Tom Clark ] Re: gapless [The Great Quail ] Re: overgrowth ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: iTunes 7 "gapless album" question ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: gapless ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: overgrown [The Great Quail ] Re: iTunes 7 "gapless album" question ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: gapless [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: iTunes 7 "gapless album" question [2fs ] Re: Ferndale Show ["Bri N" ] Re: overgrowth ["Gene Hopstetter Jr." ] Re: overgrown [2fs ] Re: overgrown ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: overgrown [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: overgrown [2fs ] RE: overgrown ["Michael Wells" ] Re: overgrown [2fs ] RE: overgrown ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: iTunes 7 "gapless album" question [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:17:07 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: gapless On 11/15/06, ken ostrander wrote: > > >>>>>Does the "gapless" feature work only in playback mode? > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > > > i believe so; and for just about every program out there. this has been > a real challenge for me. the only burning software that i've ever seen > that allows you to opt out of the two seconds between each track is > nero. Roxio Easy CD creator allows you to eliminate automatic 2-second gaps, as does EAC. In fact, I'm pretty sure iTunes does too. But it's not the standard two-second gap I'm talking about. Here's the problem: I'm talking about tracks that (on the actual CD) segue smoothly from one to the other (such that often you don't know a new track has begun w/o looking at the display on your player); often, the mp3s of such tracks from eMusic prove to have a very small silence at the end (usually) or beginning - about 1/20 second or so. So if you burn these to CD without editing them, the segue is disrupted by that tiny silence. In the past, if I wanted to burn an actual CD from eMusic mp3s, I've dealt with this by converting the mp3s to wav files and using an editor to zoom in and allow me to surgically remove those tiny silences. Then when I burn a CD from those edited wav files, the segues work correctly. (Incidentally, does anyone know why those eMusic mp3s have those microsilences? If I rip tracks myself that segue on a CD, there's no such silence.) My suspicion is that however the gapless play feature works, it probably doesn't work for burning...but here's hoping... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:22:44 -0500 From: "m swedene" Subject: "blinking" > Robyn content: so how come no one's said anything about blinking? My girlfriend, now my fiance, and next week my wife.... has always pointed out the FRANTIC blinking of Robyn when he plays live. We thought it may be a nervous condition or something to do with the lights from playing live. We are glad to see that we were not the only ones who noticed this. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:26:40 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: "blinking" m swedene wrote: > My girlfriend, now my fiance, and next week my wife.... Congrats on that! > has always pointed out the FRANTIC blinking of Robyn when he plays > live. We thought it may be a nervous condition or something to do > with the lights from playing live. I always took it as some bizarro way of keeping time. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:50:47 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: robyn radio 11/16 thursday (3 shows) Thursday, November 16 / New York City area Noon b 1:00 pm _WFMU with Irene Trudel_ (http://www.wfmu.org/~irene/) 2:00 b 3:00 pm_ WNYC "Soundcheck"_ (http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/) 3:00 b 3:45 pm _WNYC Studio 360_ (http://www.studio360.org/) WFMU and WNYC are available via iTunes plus all UK dates listed _http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm_ (http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:33:05 -0800 From: "Bri N" Subject: Peace Concert Here's some cool clips from a Peace Concert Matthew Seligman did in Japan. They sound great and Matthew's sporting somewhat longer hair! Enjoy. -Nuppy File 1: File Name: MY_DATA_1019061_charpter(13).mpg Description: end of let it be at the peace concert File Size: 25 MB Download Link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/8r3nd5" target=_blank >http://www.sendspace.com/file/8r3nd5 File 2: File Name: MY_DATA_1019061_charpter(1).mpg Description: sitting beside myself at the peace concert File Size: 40 MB Download Link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/jfz03j" target=_blank >http://www.sendspace.com/file/jfz03j ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:37:58 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: iTunes 7 "gapless album" question On Nov 14, 2006, at 8:14 PM, 2fs wrote: > Does the "gapless" feature work only in playback mode? And does it > work by > excising silent fragments from the beginning or end of tracks? And > if it > does work that way, does it work also when burning CDs? > > More specifically: can I use it to have iTunes burn a gapless CD > directly > from mp3s in iTunes without having to first convert the mp3s to wav > files > and manually edit out the little silent bits that sometimes appear > at the > ends and beginnings even of tracks that segue seamlessly on the > actual CDs? Setting the gap between songs to 'none' in the Burning preferences will get you a gapless CD, provided iTunes has determined the album should be gapless. The process for determining that I'm not privy to. Now, if you're looking to do a crossfaded mix CD, you'll have to construct that yourself by building one large mp3 file out of the individual tracks. I believe there are ways to do that using GarageBand or iMovie. btw, Roxio Toast is a very good CD/DVD authoring program as well. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:16:09 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: gapless Stewart writes, > So, okay, who *didn't* spend all of yesterday listening to Ys? I love it. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:24:19 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: overgrowth On 11/14/06, ken ostrander wrote: > > you have to crank it up to make them out. there are a number of tracks > that have random bits tacked on at the end: Cool to have a scorecard on these... I have to go back to it again. Luckily I very much enjoy that record; it's probably my favorite of the many RH odd'n'sodsers. > >>>>>>>>>>I assume "The Speed of Things" is partly about Maisie. Most of > the references I recall him making to her have had to do with what music > she's into at the time. She must lead an interesting > life...<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > > > the line about throwing dirt on a coffin makes it confusing; but the rest > of the song seems to work in that light. i like the line about a feeding > in the morning and driving a sports car by afternoon. "the terror of the > moment" aptly describes > fatherhood. Need to listen again, but I think I once had it parsed as being about mother, wife, daughter, a sort of catalog of how damned fast life goes by as measured by the formative women in the singer's life. Great song, I think. - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:31:04 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: iTunes 7 "gapless album" question On 11/15/06, Tom Clark wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2006, at 8:14 PM, 2fs wrote: > > Setting the gap between songs to 'none' in the Burning preferences > will get you a gapless CD, provided iTunes has determined the album > should be gapless. The process for determining that I'm not privy > to. Now, if you're looking to do a crossfaded mix CD, you'll have to > construct that yourself by building one large mp3 file out of the > individual tracks. I believe there are ways to do that using > GarageBand or iMovie. Audacity is free and good for either making or breaking down big long files (create a long mix, or sort a continuous live recording into individual tracks). Prolly old news, but worth a mention. - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:36:10 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: gapless Stewart: > So, okay, who *didn't* spend all of yesterday listening to Ys? Not me, but I have been enjoying: "Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka: Porn Music for the Masses" http://www.archive.org/details/csr049 and Mastodon's "Blood Mountain" http://tinyurl.com/yzxq5m Note that neither features Bill Reiflin. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:39:23 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: gapless On 11/15/06, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > > So, okay, who *didn't* spend all of yesterday listening to Ys? I had to google it to remember what it was. I'm afraid that 2006 is the year when a number of musical acts I'd been on the fence about-- at least Newsom and The Decemberists-- went prog and lost me completely. Kinda bums me out in the latter case because I'm starting to feel like the strong stuff on "Picaresque" has held up better than I'd thought it would. I was actually listeing the the leak of the upcoming Bloc Party yesterday. Strong record. The tempos and keys are a little samey on the first half but that helps you notice the lyrics being pretty damned good... then in the latter half the sonic pallette gets a little more varied and it really takes off. Gonna be a logjam for my top record of the year-- does the Art Brut album count as a 2006 (in the US at least)? And when did The National's "Alligator" come out? - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:02:59 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: overgrown Ken, It's like this. Ten years ago, the Feglist was a different place. Different people, different time, different chemistry. Back then, we were still getting to know each other, we were a smaller group, we were forming an identity. I am happy to say that I was part of that process, and those kind of postings were fun when the time was right. But a list is a living community, and as such, it changes -- new people come, old people leave, and casual arguments become entrenched positions. Like any relationship, some things can just go sour. I've watched myself go from court jester to fringe crank, and while it causes me some pain, I accept it as part of the natural cycle of things. Those surreal posse posts from back in the day? Not only do I have no desire to write them, they would hardly be welcome. Like it or not, my online persona on this list is no longer court jester; such posts would seem misguided coming from me. That kind of out-of-bounds freewheeling only works when the general spirit of things is light, and most people get along. I do not feel that I've lost my sense of humor -- in real life, and on other lists, I'm still thought of as a generally funny and light-hearted guy. But my relationship with the Feglist as soured. Like a married couple estranged and heading for divorce. I only hang around because we still share a few friends, and I like to keep tabs on Robyn. And yeah, of course, I realize I am entirely to blame for my own part in this. I admit that after 911, I felt that the List was a far from consoling presence, and like many NY Fegs, I dropped off. It certainly impacted my sense of humor at the time, and that still resonates for me today. So, no need to conjure up a conspiracy theory or imply that I've become a "hapless tool." Perhaps it's because of the 2000 elections and 911; perhaps its because as Robyn's music changed, a certain type of fan faded away. But yeah, don't hold your breath for a return of those days. (And I'd also like to add, I get a bit weary when people ask me, "why don't you post like that any more?" I'm not a jukebox, you can't put in a quarter and hear what you want. You want the quality of things to change, then change it. Most of my energy goes into other things now.) And finally, the proper spellings are "Cthulhu," "Nyarlathotep," and "Dagon." I just thought I'd mention that before you have to explain your errors to a higher authority. - --Quail > fun, the Great Old Ones, the many tentacled one Cthullu and > Nyalarthotep, the good old crawling chaos- who live outside of time > and space as we mere mortals know it and who care not for our pretty > norms and morality - have turned the once Great and Wondrous Quail > into a hapless tool of their own devices . How the mighty have > fallen !!!!!!.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< oh how horribly > wonderful. though he may always have been so. i can easily imagine him > making exhortations on science, muck, and algebra in secret languages of > the hand with the aid of electrical apparatus and flesh cartoons, > twisting his spicey goatee wishing he could quack while fingering the > pages of joyce's dirty letters stuck together with blood in his pocket > where nightmares dress like father dragon and mother hydra...this brain > is too old to go mad. >>>>>>>>>>>> you will find the pick of the old surreal > posse and quailposts that represent a particularly fecund and > imaginative era of the list, one to which it can no longer aspire to > ( or some would say descend into ) in these bleak post 9/11 > times.<<<<<<<<<<< ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:18:36 -0500 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: iTunes 7 "gapless album" question On 15/11/06, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > Audacity is free and good for either making or breaking down big long files > (create a long mix, or sort a continuous live recording into individual > tracks). Just don't use v1.3.2 - stick to the 1.2 tree. I found this out after editing the RH&V3 Toronto show with 1.3.2 - after final save, it wrote a project file it couldn't read, and deleted two of the source audio files. Also, they broke the track split functionality in 1.3. Bah. - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:38:05 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: gapless On 11/15/06, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > > > I was actually listeing the the leak of the upcoming Bloc Party > yesterday. > > Strong record. > > I love their first one, so that's good to hear. Where'd you find it? It's been leaked and is kicking around here and there... > > I never really paid much attention to their lyrics. A friend of mine got > the extended version of Silent Alarm with the DVD, and I wasn't really > impressed by the interviews ... The lyrics on the first record didn't make that strong of an impression either way, but this one kinda grabs me in the first tune with the phrase "live a dream that the '80's never happened", which sounds like a sign that they're thinking outside their box. There are some really nice, original achey breaky character and relationship studies that follow and command a little more attention than I'd expected. I still like the singer's voice quite a bit. Still absorbing the record, though. Anyway, there's too much music in the world. Lately I've been catching up > with punk. Of course I already had and knew some, but I just heard my > first > records by: > > Gang Of Four That must've been interesting. If you like it, please do seek out The Pop Group, who are my New Favorite Old Band. One of them, at least. I'm on a real tear of "re-rediscovering 1979", and loving it. My favorite punk-qua-punk discovery in this process is probably The Adverts, but damn have I found some good early post-punk that was previously unknown to me. Slits ahoy, SER ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:03:36 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: gapless - -- Spotted Eagle Ray is rumored to have mumbled on 15. November 2006 09:39:23 -0800 regarding Re: gapless: >> So, okay, who *didn't* spend all of yesterday listening to Ys? > > I had to google it to remember what it was. Same here. I guess I've read her name here, but I don't know anybody who listens to her. > I'm afraid that 2006 is the > year when a number of musical acts I'd been on the fence about-- at least > Newsom and The Decemberists-- went prog and lost me completely. Hm, I just ordered the new Decemberist and I've already bought a ticket for their show in February - but I'm not entirely anti-prog, so who knows? > Kinda > bums me out in the latter case because I'm starting to feel like the > strong stuff on "Picaresque" has held up better than I'd thought it would. I haven't listened to it in a while. > I was actually listeing the the leak of the upcoming Bloc Party yesterday. > Strong record. I love their first one, so that's good to hear. Where'd you find it? > The tempos and keys are a little samey on the first half > but that helps you notice the lyrics being pretty damned good... I never really paid much attention to their lyrics. A friend of mine got the extended version of Silent Alarm with the DVD, and I wasn't really impressed by the interviews ... Anyway, there's too much music in the world. Lately I've been catching up with punk. Of course I already had and knew some, but I just heard my first records by: Gang Of Four Dead Kennedys Die Goldenen Zitronen (highly recommended!) Hans-A-Plast And I got the Ramones Anthology ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://darkstar.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:00:46 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: iTunes 7 "gapless album" question On 11/15/06, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > On 11/15/06, Tom Clark wrote: > > > > On Nov 14, 2006, at 8:14 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > > Setting the gap between songs to 'none' in the Burning preferences > > will get you a gapless CD, provided iTunes has determined the album > > should be gapless. The process for determining that I'm not privy > > to. Now, if you're looking to do a crossfaded mix CD, you'll have to > > construct that yourself by building one large mp3 file out of the > > individual tracks. I believe there are ways to do that using > > GarageBand or iMovie. > > > Audacity is free and good for either making or breaking down big long > files > (create a long mix, or sort a continuous live recording into individual > tracks). Just so you know, my question is motivated entirely by laziness: I have plenty o' apps that allow me to convert, edit, merge, spindle, fold, mutilate, left, fold, and separate sound files. I was just hoping to save some time. My laziness will probably evolve to realizing that, hey, a single blank CD-R costs like, what, a quarter? and I should just burn a damned disc and find out. Curmudgeon mode on: with all due respect to folks who live in NYC or DC (particularly the former) and who therefore are confronted daily with the aftermath of 9/11, my impression is that most people elsewhere really don't think about it that much. It was a terrifying tragedy, a frightening reminder of our vulnerability...but we're not obsessed with it, and I don't think it enters into people's daily calculations of mood. Some network executive (quoted in the AV Club a month or so back) actually posited that sitcoms weren't doing well these days because people were still "reeling from 9/11." Uh - no: it's because they're crap. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:01:18 -0800 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: Ferndale Show In Bill's defense, it must totally suck having to take up and down your own drums everynight when the rest of the band is out signing things for the fans. Both nights, I didn't see anyone helping Bill. Maybe I'd be grumpy too. Drummers sometimes get the short end of the stick. - -Nuppy - --- tclark@mac.com wrote: From: Tom Clark To: The Authority Box Subject: Re: Ferndale Show Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:26:16 -0800 On Nov 14, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Bri N wrote: > Bill seemed really put off and grumpy in general when I asked him > to sign my OT in Cleveland. He seemed like kind of a dick, > honestly. Scott had to say "just sign it Bill." Scott's a super > duper nice guy. Very happy in general it would seem. I had a similar experience in SF earlier this year. Robyn, Peter and Scott were happy to sign the setlist I snagged, but I don't think I would have gotten Bill to sign it if John Renberg hadn't handed it to him. That kinda sucks that he's like that. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:11:50 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: overgrowth On Nov 15, 2006, at 7:05 AM, ken ostrander wrote: > the consensus on the archives is that artist rosalind kunath is her > mother; > but the jury is still out on whether or not she and robyn were > married. via "The back cover photography and collage was by Rosalind Kunath who was married to Robyn Hitchcock." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:15:25 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: overgrown On 11/15/06, The Great Quail wrote: > > Ken, > > It's like this. A largish man waddles over to an enormous overstuffed leather armchair. Settling his full weight comfortably into the rich folds of leather, he releases a prodigious, prolonged, reverberant fart. A pungent funk fills the air. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:27:05 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: overgrown On 11/15/06, The Great Quail wrote: > > But a list is a living community, and as such, it changes -- new people > come, old people leave, and casual arguments become entrenched positions. > Like any relationship, some things can just go sour. Huh. I've found Ken's recent whimsical postings incredibly welcome breaths of fresh air. It seems like the list these days is the very embodiment of "YMMV". I admit that after 911, I felt > that the List was a far from consoling presence, and like many NY Fegs, I > dropped off. It certainly impacted my sense of humor at the time, and that > still resonates for me today. (...) Perhaps it's because of the 2000 elections and 911; It's interesting that these two events are always cited as the point where the list when to hell, but at the same time some folks point to me as a source of souring, so I feel I should reiterate: I was *not* on the feglist during either the 2000 election or 9/11, and didn't participate in any of the debates-- I don't even know who was on what side, or particularly in the case of 9/11 what the opposing viewpoints could possibly have been (and I don't really wish to know). The source of sourness that I detect these days is completely apolitical and entirely personal, and in that area I accept partial blame. But just about everybody has had their round of "I'm taking my toys and going home"... I don't detect that anyone who left and came back has any intention of leaving again, so it is what it is. I still have good friends here who synch up with quite diverse corners of my musical interests, so I'm sticking around, and sticking to music as the primary point of discussion. It certainly helps that Robyn's current musical output rocks my world and I like seeing other people excited about it, too. I wonder if Cthulhu is truly a stickler for spelling or actually prefers fnord-ridden word-collision-style posts. - -SER perhaps > its because as Robyn's music changed, a certain type of fan faded away. > But > yeah, don't hold your breath for a return of those days. (And I'd also > like > to add, I get a bit weary when people ask me, "why don't you post like > that > any more?" I'm not a jukebox, you can't put in a quarter and hear what you > want. You want the quality of things to change, then change it. Most of my > > energy goes into other things now.) > > And finally, the proper spellings are "Cthulhu," "Nyarlathotep," and > "Dagon." I just thought I'd mention that before you have to explain your > errors to a higher authority. > > --Quail > > > > fun, the Great Old Ones, the many tentacled one Cthullu and > > Nyalarthotep, the good old crawling chaos- who live outside of time > > and space as we mere mortals know it and who care not for our pretty > > norms and morality - have turned the once Great and Wondrous Quail > > into a hapless tool of their own devices . How the mighty have > > fallen !!!!!!.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< oh how horribly > > wonderful. though he may always have been so. i can easily imagine him > > making exhortations on science, muck, and algebra in secret languages of > > the hand with the aid of electrical apparatus and flesh cartoons, > > twisting his spicey goatee wishing he could quack while fingering the > > pages of joyce's dirty letters stuck together with blood in his pocket > > where nightmares dress like father dragon and mother hydra...this brain > > is too old to go mad. > >>>>>>>>>>>> you will find the pick of the old surreal > > posse and quailposts that represent a particularly fecund and > > imaginative era of the list, one to which it can no longer aspire to > > ( or some would say descend into ) in these bleak post 9/11 > > times.<<<<<<<<<<< ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:50:59 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: overgrown 2fs wrote: > A largish man waddles over to an enormous > overstuffed leather armchair. Settling his full > weight comfortably into the rich folds of leather, > he releases a prodigious, prolonged, reverberant > fart. A pungent funk fills the air. Fuck you, that was the dog farting. "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have any." -- Keith Olbermann . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Compare mortgage rates for today. Get up to 5 free quotes. Www2.nextag.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:53:57 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: overgrown On 11/15/06, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > > I wonder if Cthulhu is truly a stickler for spelling or actually prefers > fnord-ridden word-collision-style posts. What's really important is where Cthulhu stands on the issue of the serial comma. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:06:43 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: overgrown Michael Wells mwells@imageworksmfg.com Purchasing Manager Imageworks Manufacturing, Inc 49 South Street Park Forest, IL 60466 PH 708.503.1122 FX 708.503.1133 2fs wrote: > A largish man waddles over to an enormous > overstuffed leather armchair. Settling his full > weight comfortably into the rich folds of leather, I'm relieved that a leather chair has leather folds. If it didn't...oh, never mind. Anybody else get "Nyarlathotep" and "Naugahide" confused? I've had that problem for years. As I plan on ordering a recliner after the holidays, I should probably get that one worked out. Michael Ps. the door between universes where time and space end is at The Magic Bag in Ferndale, I believe. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:25:39 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: overgrown On 11/15/06, Michael Wells wrote: > > > 2fs wrote: > > A largish man waddles over to an enormous > > overstuffed leather armchair. Settling his full > > weight comfortably into the rich folds of leather, > > I'm relieved that a leather chair has leather folds. If it didn't...oh, > never mind. My apologies - there was a typo. That should have read: A largish man waddles over to an enormous overstuffed leather armchair. Settling his full weight comfortably into the rich folds of leather, he releases a prodigious, prolonged, reverberant set of CDs. A pungent funk fills the air. It's Miles Davis' _Dark Magus_. Anybody else get "Nyarlathotep" and "Naugahide" confused? I've had that > problem for years. As I plan on ordering a recliner after the holidays, > I should probably get that one worked out. That's "Naugahyde," bucko. You go on ahead and order your Nyarlathotep recliner now. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:26:27 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: overgrown Michael Wells wrote: >Ps. the door between universes where time and space end is at The Magic Bag in Ferndale, I believe. I saw The Church at The Magic Bag a couple of months ago, and Steve Kilby remarked that he felt a very postitive atmosphere at TMB. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:46:18 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: iTunes 7 "gapless album" question On Nov 15, 2006, at 11:00 AM, 2fs wrote: > My laziness will probably evolve to realizing that, hey, a single > blank CD-R > costs like, what, a quarter? and I should just burn a damned disc > and find > out. > That's exactly what I did. > Curmudgeon mode on: with all due respect to folks who live in NYC > or DC > (particularly the former) and who therefore are confronted daily > with the > aftermath of 9/11, my impression is that most people elsewhere > really don't > think about it that much. It was a terrifying tragedy, a frightening > reminder of our vulnerability...but we're not obsessed with it, and > I don't > think it enters into people's daily calculations of mood. Although I've lived across the country for the past 15 years, my heart is still in NY. The pain I feel when I think of those towers coming down is something I consistently try to avoid, but it really hurts when I see photos or old movies with the NYC skyline "intact". I'm not sure I'll ever get over it. - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #273 ********************************