From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #56 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, February 19 2007 Volume 16 : Number 056 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Viv's New Favorite Ice Cream [Rex ] Re: locations of Michaels [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: locations of Michaels ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: All John Cale, all the time. ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: locations of Michaels ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: locations of Michaels ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: locations of Michaels [Rex ] Re: Study break [ken ostrander ] Re: allmusic.com mention [ken ostrander ] Re: conspiratorial number theory [ken ostrander ] Today's math post (for shoppers, too!) ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: locations of Michaels [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: allmusic.com mention [2fs ] Leppo and the proofs ["Michael Wells" ] Re: Leppo and the proofs ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] why I am an idiot: part 5,372 [2fs ] missed this last week... [2fs ] Re: All John Cale, all the time. [FSThomas ] Re: locations of Michaels [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Leppo and the proofs [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: allmusic.com mention [Jeff Dwarf ] robyn on nick drake @ sxsw [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:54:16 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Viv's New Favorite Ice Cream More from what Lauren must've found puzzlingly private missives from me... PS, will one one of the Michaels please self-identify as "Wang-Bo"? Thanks! - -Rex On 2/16/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > I'm having a bit of trouble with this membrane business. Part of the > problem may be that I assumed that as with most frozen desserts, it > would be best to try it when I got home from errands and it had > softened a bit. I think that was a mistake. It kind of like eating a > partial-formed egg. From another planet. Definitely supposed to be eaten fully-frozen. Otherwise, it's less a desert, more of a... sac. (Something about the word "sac" is intrinsically more bio-gooey than "sack", if you follow.) - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:31:21 -0800 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: locations of Michaels On Feb 18, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > Michael Bachman, MJB, MJ Files, Uncle Stan > > Michael Sweeney, Leppo > > Michael Godwin (who may actually be a Mike but still lots of room for > confusion), Colonel Mustard (perhaps Master Mustard "Classic") Is Michael Wolfe still on the list? Or Mike Runion? - - c - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------- "It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence" Martin Luther King Jr. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:48:13 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: locations of Michaels Well, there's an easy way to do this for the US and Canada: http://direct.where2getit.com/cwc/apps/w2gi.php?template=search&client=michaels You can thank me later. Preferably by framing one of my posters, rather than with potpourri. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:53:49 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: All John Cale, all the time. On 2/18/07, Rex wrote: > Oh, nice. > > I'v still never seen Cale live. I tired to see hime but failed when I got > my nights reversed at the Sunset Junction Street Fair two years ago and > ended up seeing the Two York Dolls instead. Not bad, but not Cale. I've seen Cale live once, I think in '97 - his only Nashville appearance ever. He played Zanies, the comedy club. He was funny, but it wasn't standup comedy (though his VU-mate's Take No Prisoners has been counted as such). I think I may have posted about it to Feg back then. He was very, very good - full electric band, steady build in energy/intensity throughout the setlist, a tremendous performance. At the time, I had nary a Cale album, so shortly thereafter I plunged in with the anthology, Fragments of a Rainy Season, the Island Years, etc.... and while I liked them all to one degree or another, none of them were nearly as good as that show, not even the official live albums. Maybe this new release changes that. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:06:16 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: locations of Michaels On 2/18/07, Miles Goosens wrote: > > Well, there's an easy way to do this for the US and Canada: > > > http://direct.where2getit.com/cwc/apps/w2gi.php?template=search&client=michaels > > You can thank me later. Preferably by framing one of my posters, > rather than with potpourri. Whereas Miles is your source if you're on Elvis Presley Blvd. in Memphis and "have responsibilities that you must faithfully discharge": - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:18:55 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: locations of Michaels Jeff: > Whereas Miles is your source if you're on Elvis Presley Blvd. in Memphis and > "have responsibilities that you must faithfully discharge": > > I was hoping for Miles of Music, but hey, I can stand some more meals at Huey's and Le Rendezvous. Those Miles of Music people won't give me a discount, the bastards. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:23:23 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: locations of Michaels Miles Goosens wrote: > > You can thank me later. Preferably by framing one of my posters, > rather than with potpourri. Those stores make me ill. Not just for their gratuitous crimes of scrapbooking, but for their stench of faux-cinnamon from the potpourri aisle. All I can think of is ... leakers. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:30:21 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: locations of Michaels On 2/18/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 2/18/07, Miles Goosens wrote: > > Whereas Miles is your source if you're on Elvis Presley Blvd. in Memphis > and > "have responsibilities that you must faithfully discharge": > > Wow, the "spinning globe" in the top right corner of that one is just terrifying... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:40:28 -0800 (PST) From: ken ostrander Subject: Re: Study break >Has anyone seen those new(ish) match.com ads on MSN? They have a new >motto which is: > >"It's okay to look." yup everybody looks. you can't help it; the ads are everywhere it seems. if you just want to look, you don't need to actually go to the site. at least those folks are trying to get single folks together. there are numerous junkmails that involve "lonely housewives looking for sex", which is another animal altogether. talk about trouble. and even looking can get you into trouble. people get addicted to porn too. how do you know if you've got a problem? when it interferes with your real relationship or your job? then there's the ladies that are seeking to get oogled. i brought my daughter to one of my wife's child psych classes (so that the students could observe how she reacted to the classroom full of students) and there was a young lady in the front row with her bossoms all pow-pow. it was pretty cold outside, so you've gotta wonder. you can't help noticing; but like jerry said, "it's like looking at the sun." finally, i can't help thinking about the whole matter of what is being shoved down our throats (so to speak) regarding what is beautiful. it's nice to hear that underweight models were banned at madrid fashion week. for me, the skinny models are like little girls. i don't think of a woman until i see a little hipsway. 'crumb' changed the way that i look at the female form. ken "some desire, others admire" the kenster - --------------------------------- Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:27:33 -0800 (PST) From: ken ostrander Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention >>>I always thought it was a dumb-ass label - first, it's too back-patting (ooh, we're all "alternative"...). It's also rather vague, and (in its descriptive sense) utterly dependent (in reactive terms) on whatever's deemed non-"alternative."<<< yup. you could say that alternative began back with all of the obscure psychedelic and garage music that glutted the market when record companies were trying to cash in on flower power. the real genesis for the genre is the velvet underground. they seem to embody 'alternative' for me. of course, the term was coined to feed (create?) a market. still, it resonates for a lot people. for all of the reactionary vagueness, there is something very appealing about it. there are folks who hold it as a way of life (look at dischord and righteous babe); and when you consider the courtney love angle, there is a lot to be said for avoiding the corporate beast. >>Nice list. One note: not that I should be allowed any input on list-making, but I would say, hey, no collections or greatest hits albums.<< fair enough. though allmusic started it (and 'substance' and 'standing on a beach' cannot be beat for new order and the cure). it gets tough with artists like bowie and costello and roxy music who have several albums that might qualify (i'll suggest 'scary monsters', 'armed forces' and 'country life'). 'singles going steady' has to be an exception. and the wire comp just makes sense cramming most of their first three albums onto one disk. for echo i'd go 'crocodiles'. for the furs 'talk talk talk'. and for joy division 'unknown pleasures'. i could add 'the wonderful and frightening world of the fall'. the first undertones album could be there. and 'manic pop thrill' from that petrol emotion. matt johnson's 'mind bomb'. and what the hell 'paris 1919'. then there's the police who no one can agree on which albums are any good (don't ask me to choose). u2 (so they're from ireland?) has a number of possibilities as well. i don't know what simple minds album i would pick either. any list is going to overlook some great stuff. and focusing on britain doesn't help. here's something more expansive that spin put together some twelve years ago: http://www.xs4all.nl/~fsgroen/Top100's/1995SpinMagazine.html >>The allmusic.com genre section looks rather catch-as-catch-can: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=73:20 << wow. as if those catagories were mutually exclusive. i think it would be fun to be in band that actively sought to blur those styles and smash the wall full of pigeon-holes to smithereeens. ken "there are many more nutches than nitches" the kenster - --------------------------------- No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:01:59 -0800 (PST) From: ken ostrander Subject: Re: conspiratorial number theory >Conjoined twins are still two people< of course; but they still are at zero degrees of separation. literally. >>But then I'm a degree away from John, Paul, George, Ringo, Ray, Brian, >> Nick, Andy, and a whole bunch of other people, and the game isn't as fun >> anymore :) > >Agreed: the point of the game is to illustrate the curious phenomenon of how >relatively close people are via multiple linkages. It's perhaps best thought >of in terms of: what would you need to do to meet so-and-so? fun is subjective. the point might be (for some folks) to feel closer to celebrities. >Being in the same elevator with Westerberg - and >striking up a conversation about this one show you saw, to the extent that >it's *possible* PW might remember you if you met again - just might count.< it would count whether he remembered you or not. >>>>>>>Okay so say conjoined twins (not sharing the same brain) meet Paul >Westerberg in the elevator but one is reading while the other strikes >up said conversation.<<<<<<<<< invariably we want to be a member of the club that won't have us; so paul would be focused on the twin who is reading. of course, he's got a dyslexic heart; so all bets are off. >>>Okay, first: 0 degrees=identity. End of story. Ipso fucked-o. 1 degree=just >that: the closest they are in terms of connection (not *types* of >connection) w/o being identical (i.e., same brain).<<< they could have the same brain. and what about people who think that they are another person (like mark david chapman) or have multiple identities? you know, they saved hitler's brain? "are you saying that i put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide *gorilla*?" >>>Twin #2 is just being a dick. He was totally listening in, just rudely >ignoring Paul... he's hated the 'Mats ever since Bob Stinson got fired.<<< was it because he forgot to take out the trash? >>>>>>In my estimation we're best >friends of course, but to him I'm probably just "that guy". >So to revive Marc Holden's rationale (and Jeff's above) - if you meet >someone and become part of their consciousness, is that what cements >a connection? I'll take it.<<<<<<<<<<<< a concrete connection? a bridge to nowhere? i still say that one person can feel very connected while the other is unphased; but it's physical contact that seals the deal, as far as the six degrees goes. for something more metaphysical, check out "the secret": http://thesecret.tv/home.html >Of course, it's ironic that some of these government folks are saying how >bad government is (and yet running for office) - and still more ironic in >that they point to their own unwillingness and incompetence (Katrina) as an >example of how government doesn't work.< that reminds me of the husband who screws up the laundry (or whatever else he's asked to help with) so that he will not be asked again. ken(neth) "it's not just the size of a walnut / it's going north" the kenster np 'veedon fleece' van morrison - --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:27:48 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Today's math post (for shoppers, too!) Hi Fegs, I hardly ever click on those gmail text ads, but eek, they're starting to triangulate on my interests: http://mathematicianspictures.com/Math_Mugs_p01.htm The aleph null mug is the one that caught my eye. Actually, the other ones are kind of dopey. They should just have some with good equations like Fermat's Last Theorem and such. Or open problems in math which you can ponder whilst drinking your tea or coffee. And for some reason, I'm finding this sentence very amusing: "THESE MUGS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE AS SHIRTS" Honestly, I'm too tired to explain why it's funny, and I have no idea if that's because it's not actually funny or if I'm just too tired to explain why it's funny. Or both. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:43:48 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Today's math post (for shoppers, too!) Hi Fegs, Wow, gmail is letting me respond to my post. I thought it would have more safeguards. I say: > Honestly, I'm too tired to explain why it's funny, and I have no idea > if that's because it's not actually funny or if I'm just too tired to > explain why it's funny. Or both. Oops sorry I was stuck in The Zone there which is good for programming and reading proofs but not so good for processing natural language or reality. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:49:58 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Today's math post (for shoppers, too!) - -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on 19. Februar 2007 04:43:48 -0500 regarding Re: Today's math post (for shoppers, too!): > I say: >> Honestly, I'm too tired to explain why it's funny, and I have no idea >> if that's because it's not actually funny or if I'm just too tired to >> explain why it's funny. Or both. > > Oops sorry I was stuck in The Zone there which is good for programming > and reading proofs but not so good for processing natural language or > reality. And you're still not in bed?? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://darkstar.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:08:53 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Robyn television DVDs now seeded Well, I can handle Non US requests, once I receive a master copy... so, let's see how we stand in a day or two. c* On 17/02/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > at . > > registrations are closed at the moment. i think they open 'em up every > few > days. you don't need to be registered to download, however. > > > now, if somebody wants to organise a vine or weed, be the first to reply > onlist, and i'll get in touch with you after the next digest appears. (or > you could cc me the reply.) > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:50:14 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: locations of Michaels - -------------- Original message -------------- From: Rex > On 2/18/07, michael wells wrote: > > > > > > Anyone plop for Rhino's Echo & Los Bunnymen set? > > http://www.rhino.com/store/productdetail.lasso?p=RHEbay&number=74263 > > I've got their stuff scattered all over the place, and was thinking about > > getting it - opines welcome. Plus, I've got this weird connection with the > > band: I was in England, on a train from London to Rye, when I read that > > Pete > > de Freitas had been killed the day previous in a motorcycle accident. So > > how > > many degrees is that? > > Rex > I have it. It's good. I have all the original albums, and I think the box > makes it so I don't have to get all the CD reissues... it's got ace live > stuff without too many key tracks missing, and a fair cross-section of the > "reunion" material for the non-fanatic. Woulda been perfect if they'd just > tossed in the two good Elextrafixion tracks to get that over with. > Does the set or any of the CD resissues have "The Puppet" on it? Loved TP in URGH! A Music War. Uncle "Zip Zip" Stan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:01:12 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention On 2/18/07, ken ostrander wrote: > > > >>Nice list. One note: not that I should be allowed any input on > list-making, but I would say, hey, no collections or greatest hits > albums.<< > > fair enough. though allmusic started it (and 'substance' and 'standing > on a beach' cannot be beat for new order and the cure). > But that's just the problem: *of course* compilations of a band's best stuff are going to be better, generally, than any individual album by the band. This automatically gives the edge to bands that have hits compilations (and of course, not all bands do). Why not go all the way and include homemade multiple-artist greatest-hits "albums" on such lists - I mean, hell, they're better, song for song, than any of the albums on the list, since they omit the weaker tracks? If you're going to rank albums, rank *albums*. (It gets somewhat iffy, but I'd define an "album" as a set of songs recorded more or less consecutively and intended for release on one item, and which is sequenced for best effect.) Gotta go let my pet peeve out to do its duty... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:55:10 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Leppo and the proofs Lauren: > Or open problems in math which you can ponder whilst drinking your tea or coffee. Or print the problem in thermochromatic ink so that it disappears when hot liquid is in the cup. Voila! Problem solved! Drink more coffee! Somewhere I've got a Dr. Who mug with a Tardis that does this. Tom: > It's even sweeter when it's justified. +1 Formatting! If you heard 'Oscar Wilde, 5-1/4 inches, hard vinyl, dressed for a party' what would you think of? Odds are this wouldn't first: http://www.shop.com/op/~OSCAR_WILDE_FIGURE-prod-12150450 Frogs in Perspex: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17168489/ MICHAEL "death doesn't go up every year like taxes" THE MIKESTER ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:51:35 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Leppo and the proofs Hi Fegs, Michael says: > If you heard 'Oscar Wilde, 5-1/4 inches, hard vinyl, dressed for a > party' what would you think of? Odds are this wouldn't first: > http://www.shop.com/op/~OSCAR_WILDE_FIGURE-prod-12150450 My Dad is the proud(?) owner of one of those from the time I shopped at Archie McPhee. I had trouble deciding between Oscar Wilde and Charles Dickens. I think I made the right choice. This one is for ken: http://www.mcphee.com/items/11633.html These remind of the "My Dinner with Andre" video game that Milhouse plays in the arcade. One of game action buttons is "Bon Mot". xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:02:28 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: why I am an idiot: part 5,372 Okay, so how many years have I known _Abbey Road_? Thirty or more? So how is it that I don't think I ever noticed until just a few minutes ago that the repeated guitar lick at the end of "Come Together" is echoed almost exactly in the opening guitar part to "Something"? Yeesh. Then again, despite commenting on unifying devices throughout _Abbey Road_ and mentioning another one between these two tracks (the triplets in the drums), Beatles analyst Alan W. Pollack doesn't comment on this either. < http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-notes_on.shtml> - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:14:30 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: missed this last week... On what Valentine's Day is for: < http://www.comics.com/comics/fminus/archive/fminus-20070214.html> - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:17:22 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: All John Cale, all the time. 2fs wrote: > Cale's new release, Circus, looks like a killer: it's 2 CDs of live stuff > recorded on his last two tours, with tracks drawn from throughout his > career, plus a DVD that contains acoustic demos and a buncha other stuff... > > US folks are advised that it's cheaper to order via amazon.co.uk than > ordering the import through amazon.com. (There appears not to be a scheduled > US release at this point.) Looks like it's coming out on 22 February but is listing for $38.99, which is more than the ~$25.30 it costs to buy from .co.uk. The re-release of Nico's /Frozen Borderline: 1968-1970/ is a comparative steal at ~$19.90 U.S. dollars from the UK as opposed to $31.98 domestic. Question is: buy 'em now or wait ten days until I'm actually going to *be* in the UK ... - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:09:08 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: locations of Michaels michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > Does the set or any of the CD resissues have "The Puppet" on it? > Loved TP in URGH! A Music War. Only on the boxset, _Crystal Days._ They apparently hate it, so it's not on either _Crocodiles_ or _More Songs to Learn and Sing._ "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have any." -- Keith Olbermann . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:12:20 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Leppo and the proofs Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > This one is for ken: > http://www.mcphee.com/items/11633.html > > These remind of the "My Dinner with Andre" video game that Milhouse > plays in the arcade. One of game action buttons is "Bon Mot". MARTIN plays the "My Dinner with Andre" game. Not Milhouse, MARTIN!! "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have any." -- Keith Olbermann . ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:28:49 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention ken ostrander wrote: > fair enough. though allmusic started it (and 'substance' and > 'standing on a beach' cannot be beat for new order and the cure). Substance, sure, especially since even the three songs it actually shares with proper New Order albums are in different form. But the things The Cure are probably best known for now -- which is oddly enough their creative peak AFAIC, though more in spite of it being the commercial peak as well than because of it (and there's no _Faith_ in the middle dragging the period down) -- are mostly from the two albums after _Standing on a Beach,_ I don't think that holds for them at this point (and technically, the CD is _Staring at the Sea,_ not _Standing on a Beach._) I think it should be _Disintegration_, though _Kiss Me3_ would be a fine choice too. > it gets tough with artists like bowie and costello and roxy music > who have several albums that might qualify (i'll suggest 'scary > monsters', 'armed forces' and 'country life'). 'singles going > steady' has to be an exception. Primarily because it is (almost) entirely non-album tracks. Same for both _Substances_ -- "She's Lost Control," "The Perfect Kiss," "Subculture," and "Bizarre Love Triangle" being all non-album versions on their respective _Substance._ > and the wire comp just makes sense > cramming most of their first three albums onto one disk. for echo > i'd go 'crocodiles'. for the furs 'talk talk talk'. and for joy > division 'unknown pleasures'. "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: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:43:40 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: robyn on nick drake @ sxsw SXSW Schedule Revealed We're exhausted just looking at this thing http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/41248/SXSW_Schedule_Revealed Bands. Beer. Barbecue. Bands. Burritos. Band-Aids on feet. Babes in promotional t-shirts. Boys in leather jackets in 90 degree heat. Bands. Billions of flyers on every possible surface. Also, bands. Welcome to SXSW, folks. Over the weekend, the organizers of the 2007 SXSW Music Conference revealed the schedule for their massive orgy of live music taking place in Texas from March 14 through March 18 (though nothing much happens on March 18). As usual, it's full of odd lineups (Andrew Bird, Alice Smith, Perry Farrell's Satellite Party, Badly Drawn Boy, and the Good, the Bad & the Queen?), heartbreaking decisions (Sub Pop vs. Merge vs. Frenchkiss vs. Beggars/4AD--nooo!), and soul-searching questions (Why is Tom Morello playing, like, six times? Who are the "special guests" at the Merge and Arts&Crafts showcases?). Remember, the fun isn't all during the nighttime, though. Pete Townshend, Iggy Pop, Emmylou Harris, Gilberto Gil, David Byrne, and Booker T. Jones are just a few of the artists giving talks or being interviewed during daytime hours at the Austin Convention Center. There are also panels on comedy (with Patton Oswalt and David Cross, among others), Nick Drake (with his sister Gabrielle Drake, Robyn Hitchcock, and producer Joe Boyd) and the mysteriously titled "What Do You Want From Life?" (with Britt Daniel of Spoon, Corey Rusk of Touch & Go Records, some guy from Aqualung, and, why not, Tom Morello). And, of course, don't forget about the Pitchfork Music Festival/Windish Agency bash on Friday, March 16 at Emo's and Emo's Jr. from noon to six p.m. We've got the Pipettes, Girl Talk, Deerhunter, Crystal Castles, Rjd2, Menomena, the Ponys, Do Make Say Think, Simian Mobile Disco, Fujiya + Miyagi, Beach House, and Marnie Stern! Party! Here's a very, very brief guide to what's happening at SXSW 2007: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 Battle of the indie label titans! The Merge, Sub Pop, Beggars/4AD, and Frenchkiss showcases all take place simultaneously tonight. Merge holds it down at Antone's with the Ladybug Transistor, Imperial Teen, the Broken West, the Rosebuds, Oakley Hall, and "Special Guest" headliners. (Sorry kids, it's not the Arcade Fire-- they're playing in London that night.) Sub Pop takes over Emo's IV with Tiny Vipers, Loney, Dear, Oxford Collapse, Kinski, Patton Oswalt, and Maps & Atlases. (Hey! Did Sub Pop sign Patton Oswalt and Maps & Atlases when we weren't looking?) The Beggars Group invades the Emo's complex, with Beggars Banquet acts iLiKETRAiNS, Future of the Left, the Early Years, Calla, and Voxtrot holding it down at Emo's Jr. and 4AD acts Wolf & Cub, Emma Pollock, Beirut, the Mountain Goats, and Blonde Redhead in the main room. Over at the Red Eyed Fly, Frenchkiss showcases Rahim, Call Me Lightning, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, the Big Sleep, Thunderbirds Are Now!, and (yes!) Les Savy Fav. If all that wasn't enough, there's also Peter Bjorn & John and Tuung at La Zona Rosa and Lily Allen at Stubb's. AND THAT'S JUST THE FIRST NIGHT, PEOPLE! THURSDAY, MARCH 15 Astralwerks represents at Antone's with Small Sins, Sondre Lerche, the Little Ones, and Sparklehorse, while Barsuk sets up shop at Buffalo Billiards with Rocky Votolato, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Aqueduct, and Menomena. Hydrahead pummels Emo's Annex with Pelican, Jesu, Big Business, Daughters, Oxbow, and Stephen Brodsky's Octave Museum, Zero Degrees gets hyphy with the Pack, Balance, the Federation, and more, and Deerhunter and Do Make Say Think play Soho Lounge. Lethal Bizzle, Lo Fi Fnk, Matt & Kim, Shitdisco, and the Presets are at Beauty Bar (and its Patio), Bloc Party and the Dears play Stubb's, Vice Records kicks it at Flamingo Cantina with 120 Days, Panthers, Black Lips, and Chromeo, and Asthmatic Kitty hits Emo's IV with the Field Guides, the Weird Weeds, Old Time Relijun, Rafter and Friends, Shapes and Sizes, My Brightest Diamond, and Castanets. For a spiritual experience, head to the Central Presbyterian Church for the FatCat, DiCristina, and friends showcase featuring Shearwater, David Karsten Daniels, Jana Hunter, Tom Brosseau, Nina Nastasia & Jim White, and Vashti Bunyan. Count the people live-blogging at La Zona Rosa when Elvis Perkins, Cold War Kids, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Architecture in Helsinki, and Ghostland Observatory hit the stage. And finally, Secretly Canadian and its sub-labels take over the Mohawk, with performances from Dirty Projectors, Frida Hyvonen, Catfish Haven, David Vandervelde, Ladyhawk, Evangelicals, Besnard Lakes, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Bishop Allen, Richard Swift, and Okkervil River. FRIDAY, MARCH 16 After recovering from our party, get crunk with Kid Sister, A-Trak, Bonde do Role, Flosstradamus, CX Kidtronik, and the Rub at the Biz3/Kork showcase at Beauty Bar, or get dancey with Simian Mobile Disco and Rjd2 at the Urge Dance Party at Karma Lounge. Or space out with Boris at Spiro's, the Carpark showcase at Tap Room at Six featuring Beach House, Ecstatic Sunshine, Dan Deacon and others, or the Ecstatic Peace showcase at Mohawk, featuring Thurston Moore, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Pagoda, Black Helicopter, Monotract, MV/EE and the Bummer Road, Tall Firs, Magik Markers, Charalambides, and Gown. The Walkmen are at Emo's Annex, while it's undie hip hop heaven at Emo's main room with Cage, Brother Ali, Aesop Rock, El-P, and Galactic with Lyrics Born, Gift of Gab & Boots Riley. The Faint and Peter and the Wolf provide a nice yin and yang at Eternal, while Alice Smith, Andrew Bird, Badly Drawn Boy, the Good the Bad & the Queen, and Satellite Party get schizophrenic at Stubb's. Finally, Arts&Crafts holds its showcase at Habana Calle 6 Annex with Young Galaxy, Amy Millan, Apostle of Hustle, and those elusive "special guests". Broken Social Scene? Stars? Feist? SATURDAY, MARCH 17 Spend the afternoon with Boris, who play at five p.m. at the Town Lake Stage at Auditorium Shores. Stick around that same venue to see Mastodon at eight o'clock. Get happy with Junior Senior at Exodus or at the Memphis Industries / Saddle Creek / Team Love showcase at the Beauty Bar patio, featuring Cursive, Tokyo Police Club, the Pipettes, Tilly and the Wall, Field Music, and Art in Manila, a new band featuring Orenda Fink of Azure Ray and Adrianne Verhoeven of the Anniversary. In the old crazy dudes department, Daniel Johnston is at Blender Bar, Jandek is at the Central Presbyterian Church, Qui with David Yow is at Emo's Jr. and the Buzzcocks, Meat Puppets, and Poison Idea are at Emo's Main Room. The Stooges are at Stubb's, along with Spoon. Kill Rock Stars ply their wares at Emo's IV with Erase Errata, Mary Timony, Two Ton Boa, Marnie Stern, Macromantics, and Mika Miko, while Absolutely Kosher and Misra do the same at Habana Calle 6 Patio with Frog Eyes, +/-, Palomar, Chris Garneau, and the Affair. Heard too much music? Head to Friends to see the Human Giant showcase featuring comedians Aziz Ansari and TimandEric.com. If they can make you laugh after four straight days of standing on your feet, they are indeed Human Giants. Posted by Amy Phillips in festival on Mon: 02-19-07: 07:00 AM CST | Permalink ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #56 *******************************