From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #46 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, February 13 2007 Volume 16 : Number 046 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) [2fs ] Re: I would have thought this was too stupid even for Florida, but.... [] Re: I would have thought this was too stupid even for Florida, but.... [] RE: Colin Meloy (50% shameless SP) [2and2makes5@comcast.net] Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) [Rex ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #45 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] How do you *want* it? ["David Stovall" ] Re: Fellow Fegs ! [Tom Clark ] Re: Some numbers are more equal than others ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: I would have thought this was too stupid even for Florida, but.... [] Re: Hex Enduction Hour [ken ostrander ] Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) [ken ostrander ] Re: How do you *want* it? (Is that salacious enough for you, Rex?) [craig] Re: Some numbers are more equal than others [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Some numbers are more equal than others ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: How do you *want* it? [ken ostrander ] Re: Back from the dead ["Mitchell Dickerman" ] Re: Back from the dead ["Gene Hopstetter Jr." ] Re: Lousy band name, even lousier music? ["Gene Hopstetter Jr." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:56:40 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) On 2/12/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > So, does that mean that you are two degrees of separation from C.S. Lewis? > That's really awesome, and yet raises a host of other questions. Though > we've never met, you know of me, so does that put me three degrees away > from > him? I have my doubts. But, I am actually real-life friends with Jim > Davies, > and I think you've met him in person. So that adds a degree of distance > but > also adds to the air of "legitimacy" in my calculations. > > I wonder how other people calculate the degrees. (C'mon, you know you do) FWIW, Wikipedia has "0" as identity. That makes sense to me - clearly, identity ought to be included, and unless you resort to a negative number (why?), "0" is the best option. "1" for "you know the person directly" is intuitive also: "1" is steps away from the person, "2" is 2 steps away, etc. For instance, I would say that I'm one degree away from both Stephen Colbert > and Amy Sedaris, having had drinks with the guy who directed them in Exit > 57. See, I think that should be 2 degrees: if you knew Colbert or Sedaris, that would be 1 degree of separation. (If you *were* Stephen Colbert or Amy Sedaris - and you know, most of us don't actually know that that's not true - - that'd be 0.) Anyway, I'm 2 degrees from Colbert also: a friend of mine went to college with him (and a few other famous folks I can't recall - at Northwestern in the early-mid '80s). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:01:16 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: I would have thought this was too stupid even for Florida, but.... On Feb 12, 2007, at 4:32 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 2/12/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: >> >> Two teenagers in Florida being convicted on kiddy porn charges for >> taking risque pictures of THEMSELVES!!!!!!! >> >> http://news.com.com/Police+blotter+Teens+prosecuted+for+racy >> +photos/2100-1030_3-6157857.html?tag=newsmap > > (TMI Dept: The two kids involved were exactly the ages my then-g/f > and I > were the first time we had sex. I don't know if, had the tech been > there, we > would have been dumb enough to document things and e-mail the > documentation > to one another. During high school I was an avid photographer and had my own darkroom. And I had a very sexual relationship with a very hot girl. You do the math. Ah, if I still had those negatives...I'd get arrested!!! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:04:26 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: I would have thought this was too stupid even for Florida, but.... 2fs wrote: > On 2/12/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > Two teenagers in Florida being convicted on kiddy porn charges > > for taking risque pictures of THEMSELVES!!!!!!! > > > http://news.com.com/Police+blotter+Teens+prosecuted+for+racy+photos/2100-1030_3-6157857.html?tag=newsmap > > > I hope you mean that the cops are stupid. Well, the DA's office. The cops are sort of stuck in a no man's land, and it's not really there decision as to whether or not to use any judgement regarding to prosecute or not. And given that they no doubt were dealing with an irate parent, they were probably better off making a couple arrests to promote that parent cooling off than potentially having to deal with a lunatic who killed his daughter's boyfriend (Yes, I'm assuming it was the girl's father who went apeshit). Police generally have less discretionary power in such a situation; the DA has it up the ass. > The kids are naive, yes - but it's > absolutely absurd to apply "child pornography" charges to 16 and 17 > year olds making movies of themselves (you know they don't give a > fuck about anybody else - go to Las Wages...). Especially since > they didn't show them to anyone else. The argument that > they "could have sold them to child pornographers" is absurd on > about a zillion levels: 16- and 17-year-olds don't look like > children (they look, physically, like adults: news flash), > and the leap from two kids filming themselves having sex for > jollies to *selling* photos of themselves to unspecified strangers > is, uh, pretty broad. > > What really ought to happen is that whichever parents found and > brought the photos to cops ought to be prosecuted: for "child" > pornography, and for wasting everyone's time and money. Sheesh. > > (TMI Dept: The two kids involved were exactly the ages my then-g/f > and I were the first time we had sex. I don't know if, had the > tech been there, we would have been dumb enough to document things\ > and e-mail the documentation to one another...but we might have. > (Note: I am 45, so instead we would have had to have hired a guy > to paint images on the cave walls.) Good job, parents: now your > kids are sex offenders and 'child" pornographers, thanks > to your do-goodism. When "Amber" and "Jeremy" end up doing porn > videos, for lack of any other career options after having been so > branded, congratulate yourselves.) "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have any." -- Keith Olbermann . Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:20:42 +0000 From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net Subject: RE: Colin Meloy (50% shameless SP) Here's my tally: Barbeau's "Waterbugs and Beetles" -- about 3 listenings then sold. 12thmontherists "Picaresque" --lost count I will eventually get around to picking up "The Crane Wife" from what I've heard of the Decemberists. No such plans for Anton. No accounting for personal taste. I can certainly see how the Dec. hype is annoying and can drive people away. Cheers for fears, Jon -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: matt sewell > Yeah, I really thought I would like them but I really don't. Actually I think > I loathe them, even if I haven't heard them too often - they seem to hit a > Massive Annoyance switch deep in my cortex... and the hyperbole heaped upon > them by those I would have expected to know better makes me a little queasy... > Anyone who feels like they're about to buy a decemberist album should do > themselves a favour and get Anton Barbeau's In The Village Of The Apple Sun > instead... > > Speaking of which (seamless plugging ahead): Anton Barbeau + The New Moon + > dear old lovely Mark Bosley at The Port Mahon, Oxford 13th of Feb. #4. 8pm! > > Cheers > Matt > http://www.myspace.com/thenewmoonnews > http://www.myspace.com/antonbarbeau > http://www.myspace.com/markbosley > > > > > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:34:10 -0600> To: fegmaniax@smoe.org> From: > aaron@starblog.org> Subject: Colin Meloy> > I want to like The Decemberists. I > have tried to like them time and > again. I think that if I could hear the > songs sung by someone else, > I might like some of them very much. I just > canNOT get past Meloy's > whiny, nasally delivery. It grates. I can't ever get > through more > than two or three songs before having to switch to something > > else. Worst. Voice. Ever. I can't really explain it, but I just > can't listen > to it.> > That is all. > _________________________________________________________________ > Personalize your Live.com homepage with the news, weather, and photos you care > about. > http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx?icid=T001MSN30A0701 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:43:37 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) On 2/12/07, 2fs wrote: > > > Anyway, I'm 2 degrees from Colbert also: a friend of mine went to college > with him (and a few other famous folks I can't recall - at Northwestern in > the early-mid '80s). Then I should clarifiy that I am not a Bangle, much less all of the Bangles. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:41:20 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #45 > > Yes, maybe... but does Encarta have anything quite as odd as >> ? Or - more to the point - any of >> the entries on >> > > > >I see that last one has some local content for you (Baldwin Street) - which >I believed we've talked about *here* in the past, no? Indeed so - Baldwin Street is only about 500 metres from where my sweetie lives, and, indeed, one of the photos on the WP Baldwin Street page was taken by yours truly. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:45:00 -0800 From: "David Stovall" Subject: How do you *want* it? >From: "Stacked Crooked" >Subject: How do you *want* it? (Is that salacious enough for you, Rex?) > >all-told, it's about two hours of material, but was encoded at a very high >bit-rate, and with LPCM rather than AC-3 audio. so, would you rather it be >shared as-is, or re-encoded to fit onto a single single-layer disc? and if >as-is, would you rather the menu be set up to burn as a single double-layer >disc, or two single-layer discs? (obviously, if the former, it could still >be burnt onto two discs for those without dual-layer burners - -- but they'd >have to create their own menus, or go without menus.) > >secondly, it can't be shared at dime, for various reasons. two alternate >trackers -- viz., yeeshkul! and purelivegigs -- have been suggested to me. >my own preference would be either to upload it to usenet, or to vine it. > >lemme know what you think, and i'll see if i can figure out what to do with >it. Full-quality LPCM audio would be my preference by a large margin, and let it fill two discs. Don't degrade the quality unless absolutely necessary. Whatever tracker you up it to, I have an account there, and will gladly seed and seed until everyone interested has a copy. I guess that would mean I want it long and loud. Take that for whatever you wish. d9 PS: Oh, and shame on various people for having a guitar discussion - - especially one about solos specifically - and not mentioning Mike Keneally even once. Damn. I mean. Just buy _Wooden Smoke_. In fact, buy it, and if you don't like it, I'll buy it from you. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:06:02 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Fellow Fegs ! On Feb 12, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > you saw the *Wall* tour???? i don't know if that's quite as cool as > reading books about the postal history of tonga -- but it's pretty > fuckin' > cool! there were only, like, ten shows in the u.s., right? You bet your Eb-reamed ass I did. Nassau-fucking-Coliseum baby! And I've got the pictures to prove it! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:33:36 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Some numbers are more equal than others Hi Fegs, djini@voicenet.com says: > Oops, correction, the Russian guys aren't twins. Not sure if I missed a post but I didn't see that they where said to be twins. xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:35:11 -0800 (PST) From: ken ostrander Subject: Re: Back from the dead welcome back mitch! >I used "I Feel Beautiful" for my wedding song. And my bachelor party >was going to see the Soft Boys. did i ever give you a copy of the video? >No, I didn't name any children after him - yet, one more to go. congratulations! when is the blessed event scheduled? tamerlane for a boy, lysander for a girl? careful with the spoons. >Are there any rumours of Yep Roc planning a reissue series a-la Billy >Bragg? All the Rhino reissues are out of print, right? How cool would >the original album be paired with a choice show from the same era? sounds good to me. that could boost sales. has robyn broken the record for multiple releases on different labels of the same album? - --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:39:04 -0800 (PST) From: ken ostrander Subject: Re: I would have thought this was too stupid even for Florida, but.... > Good job, parents: now your > kids are sex offenders and 'child" pornographers, thanks > to your do-goodism. When "Amber" and "Jeremy" end up doing porn > videos, for lack of any other career options after having been so > branded, congratulate yourselves.) they need to get onto reality television before their fifteen minutes are up. ken "bought a new toothbrush today" the kenster - --------------------------------- Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:36:04 -0800 (PST) From: ken ostrander Subject: Re: Hex Enduction Hour >I like the earlier ones enough >that I never tire of them, esp. "Perverted by Language" and "The >Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall". 'wonderful & frightening' was my first and is still my fave. i think it's the only fall album (that i have) that i can listen to all the way through. >Speaking of novelty albums, a few years back a friend got me one of >those little "Balloon Man" 3"(?) CD singles which he found in a local >store. It's darling. shouldn't 'balloon man' be on some dr. demento novelty compilation? the only one of those mini disks i have is the 'englishman in new york' one with a ten minute cover of hendrix' 'up from the skies' played with gil evans. got sting on the brain after that grammy opener last night. i really liked the change in the second verse. i was driven to tears. - --------------------------------- Check out the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:38:05 -0800 (PST) From: ken ostrander Subject: Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) >*"Six degrees of separation* refers to the idea that, if a person is one >"step" away from each person he or she knows and two "steps" away from each >person who is known by one of the people he or she knows, then everyone is >no more than six "steps" away from each person on Earth." > >Zero degrees of separation doesn't mean that you've merged with the person, >it's just that there's no intervening person betwixt you. As in, you know >each other personally. ok, so zero degrees for our peeps and one degree for people we know impersonally? i've always wondered if the fact that i managed to shake uncle bobby or sir gordon's hand backstage meant that i'm one degree away from being a stalker freak fan boy. - --------------------------------- The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:48:58 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: How do you *want* it? (Is that salacious enough for you, Rex?) well, I'd prefer a Vine, but that would (I think) nessecitate the discs being single layer (owing to comparative paucity of Dual Layer trading). just my 2c. c* On 12/02/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > all right, so many of you are probably aware that a friend of bayard's has > been sending me DVDs to seed over at dime. well, the latest batch was a > set of three DVDs of teevee appearances and videos. i took the liberty of > cutting out some duplicate material and rearranging the running order, and > making a few other structural changes. in so doing, i was able to get > everything onto two discs. now there're a few more issues to deal with. > > all-told, it's about two hours of material, but was encoded at a very high > bit-rate, and with LPCM rather than AC-3 audio. so, would you rather it > be > shared as-is, or re-encoded to fit onto a single single-layer disc? and > if > as-is, would you rather the menu be set up to burn as a single > double-layer > disc, or two single-layer discs? (obviously, if the former, it could > still > be burnt onto two discs for those without dual-layer burners -- but they'd > have to create their own menus, or go without menus.) > > secondly, it can't be shared at dime, for various reasons. two alternate > trackers -- viz., yeeshkul! and purelivegigs -- have been suggested to me. > my own preference would be either to upload it to usenet, or to vine it. > > lemme know what you think, and i'll see if i can figure out what to do > with > it. > > > at any rate, here's what's on the discs: > > -- the soft boys performing "Only The Stones", 1980. > > -- the egyptians (including roger!) performing "Lightbulb Head", > "Uncorrected Personality Traits", "Heaven", and "Brenda's Iron Sledge"; > from the *Old Grey Whistle Test*. presumably 1985 -- anybody know exactly > when roger got the sack? > > -- the egyptians performing "Uncorrected Personality Traits" and > "Vibrating", and robyn yukking it up with kevin seal; from *120 Minutes*, > 1988. > > -- robyn performing "Raymond Chandler" in an empty room; 1990. > > -- a *Week In Rock* *Eye* feature in which robyn strolls around NYC with > his geetar; 1990. > > -- the egyptians performing "Birds In Perspex" and "Oceanside"; from > canadian teevee show *Much Music*, 1992. > > -- the egyptians performing "Ultra-Unbelievable Love" and "Oceanside"; > from > the dennis miller show; 1992. > > -- robyn performing "I Something You"; from the conan o'brien show, 1995. > > -- robyn performing "Devil's Radio"; from the spud goodman show, 1996. > > -- robyn performing "NASA Clapping" and "Dark Princess"; from the > *Circuit* > DVD, 1999. > > -- robyn performing "Freeze"; from *Reverb*, 1999. > > -- robyn talking about syd barrett and performing "Dominoes" and "It Is > Obvious"; from the *Pink Floyd And Syd Barrett Story* DVD, 2003. > > -- robyn performing "Full Moon In My Soul"; on WFMU, 2004. > > -- videos for: "Balloon Man", "Driving Aloud", the circle jerks' "I Wanna > Destroy You" (as told to beavis and butthead), "Madonna Of The Wasps", > "One > Long Pair Of Eyes", "Raymond Chandler", and "So You Think You're In Love". > > > i'd never seen the vid for "So You Think You're In Love" -- it's actually > pretty funny/cool. > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:15:56 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Some numbers are more equal than others Lauren, here's the link to that article about the pi-obsessed Russian twins. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/articles/050411fr_archive01?050411fr_archive01 While looking for it I found this cool thread on http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/jul99/0055.html a brief quote: "Professional Russian painters have appreciated the aesthetic merits of the cognitive PI-images so greatly that the main author of the film "Beautiful Faces of the PI-Number" has been elected a Full-Member of the Painter Union of the Russia :-)." Alas, the link to the film "Beautiful Faces of the PI-Number" does not work. Perhaps we could make our own little film of pi kicking the shit out of a toothbrush. > http://www.lulu.com/content/283069 ). > Oo oo, I just found Lulu myself last night! I was playing with LibraryThing, and somehow found myself over there. Has anyone ever bought any music from them? It seems related to the discussion of Courtney Does the Math (great article, by the way, thanks whoever posted it). Lulu.com, for those who haven't heard of it, is a self-publisher, but in addition to books they produce CDs, comics, etc. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:11:32 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Some numbers are more equal than others Hi Fegs, I said: > Not sure if I missed a post but I didn't see that they where said to be twins. Apologies to Jeanne...I received first post late. djini@voicenet.com says: > Lauren, here's the link to that article about the pi-obsessed Russian twins. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/articles/050411fr_archive01?050411fr_archive01 Much thanks - I really love that article. Now I won't have to dig through personal archives. During my failed search, I did find an article about the brothers' more recent work which is an interesting piece on peaceful coexistence of art and computer worlds: http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050411fa_fact Favourite line: "The Chudnovsky brothers insist that they are functionally one mathematician who happens to occupy two human bodies" and also how they refer to their computer as simply "It". > While looking for it I found this cool thread on > http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/jul99/0055.html > > a brief quote: > "Professional Russian painters have appreciated the aesthetic merits of > the cognitive PI-images so greatly that the main author of the film > "Beautiful Faces of the PI-Number" has been elected a Full-Member of the > Painter Union of the Russia :-)." > > Alas, the link to the film "Beautiful Faces of the PI-Number" does not work. > > Perhaps we could make our own little film of pi kicking the shit out of a toothbrush. Maybe Ken has a toothbrush he would be willing to donate. Sort of related to that subject, I just saw a reference to this "golden oldie" in one of my textbooks and was able to find it on YouTube of course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3oKjPT5Khg I had heard reference to it before but never had seen it. Note it is sped up 12X - today's youth is so snappy! xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:39:55 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Back from the dead Mitch wrote: >>Are there any rumours of Yep Roc planning a reissue series a-la Billy >>Bragg? All the Rhino reissues are out of print, right? How cool would >>the original album be paired with a choice show from the same era? Ken came back with: > sounds good to me. that could boost sales. has robyn broken the record for multiple releases on different >labels of the same album? I would agree that would be great, since I skipped getting any of the Rhino issues and only have the Midnight Fish, Twin Tone etc., releases. And I'm still working on getting Robyn to sign the cd inserts on all of them! I have Groovy Deco, Invisible Hitchcock and Queen Elvis to go from the 80's, and then on the 90's (although Eye and Moss Elixir are already signed). MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:14:23 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Decemberists I just wrote a review for the show last night, but it's in German ... Maybe Altavista can handle it? BTW, Web 2.0 is killing me. I made the casual acquaintance of a boy and a girl standing next to me. She posted her photos of the show on last.fm. Now I know her page there and her LiveJournal page! I'm not entirely sure how to feel about that. It certainly makes me feel old ... - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:27:36 -0800 (PST) From: ken ostrander Subject: Re: How do you *want* it? the want kind of overshadows the how. i guess that the two disk method would be best to maintain the best quality, though i'd be happy with single disk as well. i'm pretty sure that i can be part of a good old fashioned tree/vine. i haven't tried to rip/copy dvds on the new computer; but i know that we can burn them. - --------------------------------- We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:37:28 -0500 From: "Mitchell Dickerman" Subject: Re: Back from the dead > >I used "I Feel Beautiful" for my wedding song. And my bachelor party > >was going to see the Soft Boys. > > did i ever give you a copy of the video? What video? I have the boot of the show from the bachelor party. > congratulations! when is the blessed event scheduled? tamerlane for a boy, > lysander for a girl? careful with the spoons. May 5th. Hmm, we ARE having trouble coming up with a third boys name. > sounds good to me. that could boost sales. has robyn broken the record > for multiple releases on different labels of the same album? I think Bowie or Elvis Costello has the record with 4 - and in Bowie's case, some reissues have tracks not found on the others. Actually I'm noticing that more often now, very very annoying but ripping tracks solves that particular problem. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:42:57 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: Back from the dead > Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:05:11 -0500 > From: "Mitchell Dickerman" > Subject: Back from the dead > > Are there any rumours of Yep Roc planning a reissue series a-la Billy > Bragg? Yes. Robyn mentioned it in an interview hosted by Amazon, I think. He said they'd reissue all the albums on vinyl. Don't recall if that included Soft Boys material or not. I sure hope they get Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray to do the mastering. Dang near every piece of Robyn vinyl (prior to "Spooked") I have sounds like crap. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:48:49 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: Lousy band name, even lousier music? > From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz > Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #44 > > Lousy band name, even lousier music? Hmmm. Better Than Ezra (a lie, > unless Ezra is truly awful). Well, they were called Reality Patio before Better Than Ezra, which is equally sucky. Or more sucky, if you hate the band. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:42:36 +0000 From: matt sewell Subject: RE: Colin Meloy (50% shameless SP) Well, Waterbugs and Beetles is a few years old now, in fact over a decade. Personally I think Anton's more recent output is way better than the old stuff (not that I have no time for his old stuff). Also, it's not the hype that puts me off the Decemberists - I don't like their music, words, the way they sound and look. Sure, the hype is annoying but it's got a long way to go before it catches up with the band... IM... er... HO... Honestly, In The Village Of The Apple Sun. You'll thank yourself! Cheers Matt > From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net> To: fegmaniax@smoe.org> Subject: RE: Colin Meloy (50% shameless SP)> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:20:42 +0000> > Here's my tally:> > Barbeau's "Waterbugs and Beetles" -- about 3 listenings then sold.> > 12thmontherists "Picaresque" --lost count> > I will eventually get around to picking up "The Crane Wife" from what I've heard of the Decemberists. No such plans for Anton.> No accounting for personal taste. I can certainly see how the Dec. hype is annoying and can drive people away. > > Cheers for fears,> Jon> > > -------------- Original message ----------------------> From: matt sewell > > Yeah, I really thought I would like them but I really don't. Actually I think> > I loathe them, even if I haven't heard them too often - they seem to hit a> > Massive Annoyance switch deep in my cortex... and the hyperbole heaped upon> > them by those I would have expected to know better makes me a little queasy...> > Anyone who feels like they're about to buy a decemberist album should do> > themselves a favour and get Anton Barbeau's In The Village Of The Apple Sun> > instead...> > > > Speaking of which (seamless plugging ahead): Anton Barbeau + The New Moon +> > dear old lovely Mark Bosley at The Port Mahon, Oxford 13th of Feb. #4. 8pm!> > > > Cheers> > Matt> > http://www.myspace.com/thenewmoonnews> > http://www.myspace.com/antonbarbeau> > http://www.myspace.com/markbosley> > > > > > > > > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:34:10 -0600> To: fegmaniax@smoe.org> From:> > aaron@starblog.org> Subject: Colin Meloy> > I want to like The Decemberists. I> > have tried to like them time and > again. I think that if I could hear the> > songs sung by someone else, > I might like some of them very much. I just> > canNOT get past Meloy's > whiny, nasally delivery. It grates. I can't ever get> > through more > than two or three songs before having to switch to something >> > else. Worst. Voice. Ever. I can't really explain it, but I just > can't listen> > to it.> > That is all.> > _________________________________________________________________> > Personalize your Live.com homepage with the news, weather, and photos you care> > about.> > http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx?icid=T001MSN30A0701 _________________________________________________________________ Live Search: New search found http://get.live.com/search/overview ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #46 *******************************