From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #310 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, December 25 2006 Volume 15 : Number 310 Today's Subjects: ----------------- My name is "Eb", and if my dual-urethra isn't proof of the existence of God, I don't know what could be? [""Go.Fuck.Yourself@smoe.org, "Mr. Cheney\"\"" ] re: Tower [Eb ] re: Tower [Christopher Gross ] hadn't heard or seen this... [2fs ] Papa's Got a Brand New Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Papa's Got a Brand New Reap [Eb ] In other music news [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Beat boom reap [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Robyn quote in Nick Drake Book Review [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:59:59 -0800 From: ""Go.Fuck.Yourself@smoe.org, "Mr. Cheney\"\"" Subject: My name is "Eb", and if my dual-urethra isn't proof of the existence of God, I don't know what could be? ditto that. i made my last trip yesterday (the one store closed last week, and the other closes tomorrow). looks like i totaled about fifty CDs and ten DVDs. most or all of these will be given out as gifts as soon as they've been ripped to my hard drive (ahhhh, sweet, sweet information age). kind of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, i guess. while we're waiting for your review of the new pornos, here's my mini-review of their new live album: the disc itself is somewhat disappointing, by the music in the disc makes me want to devote my life to this band. ditto that. but i think i can put together a list of my favourite album artwork for ought-six: 1. Stolen Babies -- There Be Squabbles Ahead 2. Boris -- Pink 3. TOOL -- 10,000 Days 4. The Lovely Feathers -- Hind Hind Legs 5. Haram -- Haram 6. Robyn Hitchcock -- Ole Tarantula 7. The Black Angels -- Passover 8. All-Time Low -- Put Up Or Shut Up 9. Helvetia -- The Clever North Wind 10. Ed Harcourt -- The Beautiful Lie 11. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Show Your Bones 12. Daughters -- Hell Songs 13. Fear Before The March Of Flames -- The Always-Open Mouth 14. Lisa Germano -- In The Maybe World 15. Rosesdead -- Stages fuck you, kevin studyvin! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:05:37 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: och! my ears! On 12/23/06, Lauren Elizabeth (gmail) wrote: > > On 12/23/06, 2fs says: > > Does anyone know of anything (like, say, a Firefox extension) that > prevents > > websites from playing sound but does not mute sound in other > applications - > > i.e., I can be listening to iTunes, browse the web, and not have my ears > > blasted off by some idiot's sound-enhanced website that I happen upon? > > I haven't checked into one to block sound, but I love blocking flash > any time there is an opportunity: > > http://flashblock.mozdev.org/installation1.html That's a good one, which I have installed - but it doesn't seem to stop most sound. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:04:04 -0800 From: Eb Subject: re: Tower > Eddie: > ditto that. i made my last trip yesterday (the one store closed > last week, and the other closes tomorrow). looks like i totaled > about fifty CDs and ten DVDs. Oh, I went much further than that. ;) Though I didn't buy any DVDs. I picked out so many $0.75/$1 CDs during the last couple of days that I think the return on my "investments" could equal or exceed what I spent on stuff I want. If I do it right. Which is why I asked what people knew about Amazon-selling. These are sorta the highlights of what I bought for myself (almost in order of purchase, over a period of weeks): Ween-Quebec, Cluster-Zuckerzeit (imp), The New Pornographers-Mass Romantic, Arctic Monkeys-Whatever People Say I Am Thats What Im Not, Frank Black-Fast Man Raider Man, The Dresden Dolls-Yes, Virginia..., The Fiery Furnaces-Bitter Tea, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3-Oli! Tarantula, Beth Orton-Comfort of Strangers, Spiritualized-The Complete Works Volume One, Big Star-In Space, The Fiery Furnaces-Rehearsing My Choir, Robert Pollard-From a Compound Eye, Sonic Youth-Rather Ripped, Super Furry Animals-Love Kraft, Matmos-A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure, Paul McCartney-Run Devil Run, The New Pornographers-Twin Cinema, A.C. Newman-The Slow Wonder, Matthew Sweet-Kimi Ga Suki, Harmonia-Musik von Harmonia (imp), Buzzcocks-Flat-Pack Philosophy, Neko Case-Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Elvis Costello-My Flame Burns Blue, Quasi-When the Going Gets Dark, Juliana Hatfield-Made in China, The Posies-Every Kind of Light, Placebo-Meds, The Hope Blister-Underarms & Sideways, Art Brut-Bang Bang Rock 'n' Roll, Tom Verlaine-Songs and Other Things, Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint-The River in Reverse, Tarkio-Omnibus, Aloha-Some Echoes, Dillard & Clark-The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark (imp), Mosquitos-Mosquitos, Cracker-Greenland, Mission of Burma-The Obliterati, The Essex Green-Cannibal Sea, The Futureheads-News and Tributes, The Go-Betweens-Oceans Apart, Golden Smog-Another Fine Day, Kelley Stoltz-Below the Branches, Islands- Return to the Sea, Some Girls-Crushing Love, Elf Power-Back to the Web, Konono No. 1-Congotronics, Barry Adamson-Stranger on the Sofa, Soul Asylum-The Silver Lining, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs-Under the Covers Vol. 1, The Wedding Present-Search for Paradise, World Party-Dumbing Up, Jon Auer-Songs from the Year of Our Demise, Jon Auer-6 1/2 CD5, Gruff Rhys-Yr Atal Genhedlaeth, The Delays-You See Colours (imp), 50 Foot Wave-Free Music CD5, 50 Foot Wave-50 Foot Wave CD5, Matthew Friedberger-Winter Women/Holy Ghost Language School, Harmonia-De Luxe (imp...you can't beat getting a $29 import for a buck!), The Ms-Future Women, Mosquitos-Sunshine Barato, Bob Mould- Body of Song, The Sugarplastic-Will, Chris Stamey-Travels in the South and Tom Zi-Estudando o Pagode Everything on that list from Cracker-Greenland onward cost $.75 or $1. The others were mostly $3-$5. If anyone's craving a copy of any of the post-Cracker items, you could inquire whether I have an extra one to sell off. I just might. I bought a load of stuff, but I wish I had bought more. I had some bad circumstances on the next-to-last day, which basically meant that I bought a pile of CDs for 75 cents when I could have bought a lot more CDs for *50* cents. There was some bad luck on the last day, too - -- I was hoping the dollar CDs would go down to 50 cents, but the manager suddenly announced that the sale was over and the store was closed early, because some dealer had just mass-bought every CD left in the store. ACK. There could be some other bargain discs that I'll keep (selected from names like the Rakes, David Mead, As Fast As, Caribou, Lily Holbrook, Hal, Robin Holcomb, Graham Coxon, Shonen Knife, the Pastels, the Lylas, Field Music, Pearls Before Swine, John Parish, the Beards, Poi Dog Pondering, Talkdemonic, the Impossible Shapes...and, oh yeah, the Loud Family), but I'll have to play them first to know. Plus, I grabbed some CD upgrades of albums which I already had on vinyl or cassette: Massacre-Killing Time, Iggy Pop-Lust for Life, REM- Reckoning, Billy Bragg-The Internationale, Billy Bragg-Life's a Riot, They Might Be Giants-Flood, Jethro Tull-Benefit, Pavement-Slanted & Enchanted, Sebadoh-III and The dB's-Paris Avenue. I wanted Bragg- Brewing Up too, but that one unfortunately sold out. Which means I still have to hold onto my Back to Basics vinyl for now. I have four copies of The Internationale, but not one Brewing Up. > while we're waiting for your review of the new pornos, here's my > mini-review of their new live album: Didn't know there was a new live album. Is that on Matador, or some self-released thing? > 1. Stolen Babies -- There Be Squabbles Ahead > 2. Boris -- Pink > 3. TOOL -- 10,000 Days > 4. The Lovely Feathers -- Hind Hind Legs > 5. Haram -- Haram > 6. Robyn Hitchcock -- Ole Tarantula > 7. The Black Angels -- Passover > 8. All-Time Low -- Put Up Or Shut Up > 9. Helvetia -- The Clever North Wind > 10. Ed Harcourt -- The Beautiful Lie > 11. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Show Your Bones > 12. Daughters -- Hell Songs > 13. Fear Before The March Of Flames -- The Always-Open Mouth > 14. Lisa Germano -- In The Maybe World > 15. Rosesdead -- Stages Didn't you already say the Germano album stunk? Damn...that's some pretty obscure stuff. I can't remember if I've even heard most of those. I missed a chance to buy the Harcourt CD for just $4.40 at Tower (20% of $24), because I was trusting that the price would go down again without someone else buying either of TWO copies. But they both vanished. Bummer. I'm hoping the album gets a domestic label, in which case it won't be so pricey anymore. It *doesn't* seem like it will come out on Astralwerks, from what I gather. Two other discs which I notably "lost" were the self-titled Minus 5 CD (I could have gotten that for $3.60, or something like that) and - -- worse -- an $22 Gene Clark/Roadmaster import which I could have gotten for 80% off. Well, at least I got a great deal on the Dillard & Clark import. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:40:12 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: re: Tower I hit my local Tower the last Friday they were open and got Velvet Chain's "Buffy" EP for $2. - --Chris "Can't spell Christmas without him!" the Christer ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:01:32 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: hadn't heard or seen this... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:26:53 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Papa's Got a Brand New Reap James Brown http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_en_mu/obit_brown "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have any." -- Keith Olbermann . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:38:48 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Papa's Got a Brand New Reap Aww, man...I heard something earlier today about him having serious pneumonia.... Murray Xmas, Eb np: Elf Power/Back to the Web (just ok) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:09:38 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: In other music news Paul Westerberg stabbed himself with a screwdriver http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-12-22T195139Z_01_N22282406_RTRUKOC_0_US-WESTERBERG.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-C2-NextArticle-2 And Bono is going to be knighted http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=10372a70fd5e2328c7756a3d31eb4832a062aaf9&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-L3-Entertainment+NewsNews-6 "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have any." -- Keith Olbermann . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:10:35 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Beat boom reap Freddie Marsden, drummer and brother of Gerry (Marsden) and the Pacemakers Denis Payton, multi-instrumentalist of the Dave Clark Five - - Mike Godwin n.p. Ferry Cross the Mersey, G & the P ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:34:12 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Robyn quote in Nick Drake Book Review BOOK REVIEW Shedding light on the dark mystery of a folk-rock cult figure By Steve Morse, Globe Correspondent | December 25, 2006 Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake By Trevor Dann Da Capo, 288 pp., $16.95 Who, you may ask, is Nick Drake? He is one of rock music's most mysterious cult idols. He died of an apparent suicide in the '70s, but his heartwrenching songs have undergone a serious and welcome revival in recent years. A new biography, "Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake, " tracks the arc of Drake's doomed life from his spoiled, upper-middle-class British roots to his later folk-rock brilliance and drug-induced fog from lack of success at the time. Author Trevor Dann , former head of BBC Music Entertainment, negotiates the obstacle course of Drake's short-lived career (he died at age 26 ) with remarkable insight and care. Drake's posthumous renaissance is stunning. His songs have been featured in the soundtracks to "Garden State, " "The Royal Tenenbaums, " and "Fever Pitch ." Norah Jones and Lucinda Williams have covered his tunes. And he has been the subject of two TV documentaries, two compilation CDs, and a BBC radio profile narrated by Brad Pitt, who also reportedly used Drake's music in his Malibu wedding to Jennifer Aniston. Yet Drake sold precious few albums in his era. Before he was 21, he predicted he would go unrecognized during his life, and later wrote this lugubrious song lyric: "Safe in . . . the earth, that's when they'll know what you were really worth." Drake remains a vivid example of someone who couldn't cope with the pressures of the music business. This biography applies a Winston Churchill quote to Drake: His life was "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. " Or, as fellow singer Robyn Hitchcock says, "There's a resignation at the bottom of it all. His songs are like butterflies attached to anchors." In truth, Drake was his own worst enemy. He eventually refused to perform concerts (his sensitivity led to stage fright) or even do interviews to promote his records. Indeed, the first press release for a Drake album on Island Records said that "Nick Drake lives somewhere in Cambridge, somewhere close to the university. . . . He does not have a phone and tends to disappear for three or four days at a time." Born into wealth, Drake spent his early years in Burma, where his father helped run an English timber business that employed 1,500 elephants. The family then moved back to England, where Drake, an only son, displayed a gift for music. At age 16, he was a multi-instrumentalist who could play the first movement of Grieg's piano concerto. As a friend says, "He was one of those nauseating guys who can pick up your instrument and play it better than you." Drake was soon guided by famed producer Joe Boyd , an American who had been the production manager at the Newport Folk Festival when Bob Dylan went electric, and also founded the Underground Freak Out Club (called UFO) in Britain, where Pink Floyd got its start. But Boyd returned to America at a critical point in Drake's career. Drake became rudderless and smoked "industrial quantities of cannabis," the author writes. Finally, Drake became a ghost to his friends and was drained by his obscurity. He spent his last night reading "The Myth of Sisyphus " by Albert Camus, and listening to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto while taking an estimated 30 Tryptizol capsules. It's a harrowing story. Drake had escaped the rigors of the world in his music: His songs "dealt with the sun, the moon, the sea, the sky, the seasons, caves, sand, and mountains, rather than flesh-and-blood humanity," the author writes. Drake could escape no longer, leaving us to ponder what might have happened had he found the attentive fans that he has today. ) Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company. _http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/12/25/shedding_light_on_the_dar k _mystery_of_a_folk_rock_cult_figure/_ (http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/12/25/shedding_light_on_the_dar k_mystery_of_a_folk_rock_cult_figure/) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #310 ********************************